President Donald Trump on Wednesday delivered a full-throated endorsement of MyPillow founder Mike Lindell in Minnesota's Republican primary for governor, telling Truth Social readers that the man he calls the "Pillow Man" has his "complete and total endorsement" and will not let voters down.

The post, which praised Lindell as one of the country's greatest and hardest-working patriots and framed the race as a chance to rescue Minnesota from what Trump called oblivion and embarrassment under outgoing Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, comes as early voting is already underway ahead of the Aug. 11 primary.

Trump used the endorsement to elevate Lindell above a crowded Republican field and reward a longtime ally who has stood by the president's election-integrity claims through years of litigation and financial setbacks.

The president said no one has sacrificed more than Lindell in the fight over how American elections are run, and cast him as the candidate to Make Minnesota Great Again, echoing language he last used in December, when he said Lindell "deserves to be governor of Minnesota."

The endorsement could reshape the primary.

Lindell was already leading in the most recent public poll of the GOP field, a KSTP/SurveyUSA survey of 450 likely Republican primary voters conducted June 11-16, which found him at 27%, Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth at 22% and party-endorsed businessman Kendall Qualls at 17%, with roughly 24% undecided.

Qualls carried the state party endorsement out of a contentious June convention, but Demuth stayed in after voting-machine problems prompted the state GOP chair to release delegates from their pledges.

Lindell, 64, entered the race in December and has centered his campaign on election-integrity themes and opposition to what he calls rampant fraud under Walz.

He told WCCO he wants to eliminate voting machines in favor of hand counts.

He has also faced significant legal setbacks over his 2020 election claims, including a Colorado jury verdict finding he defamed a former Dominion Voting Systems executive and a Minnesota federal judge's ruling that he defamed Smartmatic.

Early in-person voting opened June 26. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who won the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement and holds a commanding fundraising advantage, is the presumptive Democrat nominee.

Her entry prompted the Cook Political Report to shift the general election from Likely Democrat to Solid Democrat in February.

Minnesota has not elected a Republican governor since 2002.

The president's post resolves months of speculation about whether he would weigh in before Aug. 11.

Lindell had said he wanted Trump to back him on the merits and had declined to treat earlier praise as an endorsement.