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Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder and election-integrity activist, claims his cybersecurity team identified 91,286 votes removed from the reported totals in Nevada's 2nd Congressional District after election night, flipping the race from a Republican lead to a Democratic win.
Lindell said the removed votes included 56,329 Republican votes and 34,957 Democratic votes. He said the Republican candidate had led by roughly 8,000 votes in the initial election night totals before the drop in the reported count put him behind. He made the claim in a post on Tuesday, November 10, promoting a special report on his LindellTV platform, "Mike Lindell Speaks Out on the Midterm Elections." In a video accompanying the post, Lindell presented a chart of the district's reported totals, which he said showed the counts falling at about 3:27 a.m. Eastern on election night.
The seat was won by Democrat Teresa Benitez-Thompson, a former Nevada Assembly majority leader, who defeated Republican David Flippo. The Associated Press called the race for Benitez-Thompson, who took about 50 percent of the vote to Flippo's roughly 44 percent, and Flippo conceded. She is the first Democrat ever to win the district, which was created after the 1980 census and had been held by Republicans since then. The seat came open when longtime Republican Representative Mark Amodei retired, and President Donald Trump had carried the district by 14 percentage points in 2024.
Lindell's claim has not been supported by election officials or independent evidence. The Washington Sun, reporting on Lindell's midterm claims on November 11, described the allegations as unsubstantiated. Charles Stewart III, a political scientist and director of the Election Data and Science Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the paper that the vote totals Lindell cited in his broadcast provide no evidence of interference, and that the patterns Lindell pointed to reflect the weakness of the Republican candidate rather than tampering.
Lindell has also claimed his team found matching algorithmic patterns in other states, including Texas and Kansas, and he is calling for a recount of the 2026 midterm results, directing supporters to his Lindell Legal Offense Fund. Lindell, a longtime supporter of President Trump, has spent years questioning electronic voting systems and has previously promoted claims about the 2020 presidential election.