Good morning and welcome to Wednesday. A listening note: we’ll have the candidates for Congress in the 7th District and the 4th District on the radio this morning at 11 in two separate debates. Tune in to MPR News. Until then, here’s the Digest:
1.Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are miles apart on the issue of climate change, despite polls showing a majority of Americans are at least somewhat concerned about it. But there’s a big difference between being concerned about an issue and making it a top priority. (MPR News)
2. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein had to cancel a planned trip to St. Paul today due to illness. But Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is still due in Minnesota to campaign this week. You may be asking yourself how have third party presidential candidates done in Minnesota? The answer isbetter than they have in the U.S. on the whole in recent years. In fact, the most popular third party presidential contenders in every presidential election since 1992 have received a higher share of the vote here than they have nationally. (MinnPost)
3. There’s no statewide race for governor or senator in Minnesota, but to the east in Wisconsin there is a race for U.S. Senate. And the campaign between incumbent Republican Ron Johnson and former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold is getting nasty. (AP via Pioneer Press)
4. In an interview last year President Obama said he found out about Hillary Clinton’s private email server like other people did, in the media. But if hacked emails released by Wikileaks are to be believed, Clinton campaign staffers were surprised and concerned about that. The reason? Obama had sent emails to Clinton’s private address and received emails from her.The president's spokesman said Tuesday that Obama's original comment that he had not known about the private email server was accurate. (New York Times)
5. Donald Trump has stopped holding big-money fundraisers that also collect cash for the Republican Party. It’s an unusual move that could hurt GOP get-out-the-vote efforts in the closing days of the campaign. The Clinton campaign is continuing fundraisers through Nov. 3, although the candidate herself won’t be holding any. A Trump campaign official said they wanted to focus on Trump’s political events in the closing days of the race. (Washington Post)
