A self-described witch crashed a Republican caucus in Clay County, Minnesota, hexing attendees with a cackling curse before the crowd tried to pray it away.
The bearded interloper interrupted the reading of a gubernatorial straw poll in which Kendall Qualls led and Mike Lindell placed third at an elementary school cafeteria Tuesday, according to Minnesota Public Radio News. (RELATED: Mayor Mamdani Gets His First Big Test And All Sides In Officer-Involved Shooting Aren’t Happy With Him)
“Mike Lindell, 23, hahaha!” the witch cackled upon learning the MyPillow CEO was trailing Qualls by seven votes in the county.
Two men moved to escort the witch from the roughly 70-person crowd, but the individual kept shouting, accusing those present of having killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti by voting Republican. Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer in January while in her vehicle in a Minneapolis neighborhood. Pretti, a nurse who had been protesting Good’s killing, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents weeks later.
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“I’m a witch,” the person yelled, draped in a green cape with a cross around their neck and a red cane in hand. “I hex all of you!”
As the witch was ushered out, unease settled over the room — until one man rallied the group in prayer. “We cancel that curse, that hex, in Jesus’ name,” he said, drawing an “Amen” from the crowd. The group then offered a second prayer, this time a blessing for the heckler, asking for divine intervention in the person’s understanding.
Caucus organizers told MPR News the witch’s identity remains unknown and that no heckler had ever disrupted the event before. The incident, while unusual, fits a broader pattern of protest disruptions in the state, some of which have led to arrests after interrupting a church service and snarling airline operations at a Minnesota airport.