MPR News Update

Daily Digest for September 11, 2020

Posted at 7:45 a.m. by Michael Olson
 
Good morning. There are 53 days until election day.

Both President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden will campaign in Minnesota on Sept. 18.

The campaigns for both candidates have announced visits on the day that absentee voting begins in Minnesota.

It will be Biden's first trip to the state during the 2020 campaign, although his wife Jill campaigned here this week. During her visit on Wednesday, Jill Biden toured an elementary school in Prior Lake, Minn., and met with the state’s education leaders.

President Donald Trump is due to hold an airport hangar rally in Bemidji.

Biden hasn’t said yet where his appearance will be.

Minnesota has been thrust onto the presidential map after a narrow Trump loss in 2016. He has campaigned in the state often, although most polling shows him behind.

A powerful statewide police group is pulling its endorsements of several Democratic state legislators, marking the latest turn in a deepening political rift over a DFL-endorsed candidate’s conduct at a rally outside Minneapolis Police Federation President Bob Kroll’s home. The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association (MPPOA) board voted this week to back Republican challengers to Democratic incumbents in at least two potentially competitive seats, according to social media posts from the GOP candidates.” -- Torey Van Oot, Star Tribune

The Children of 9/11 are about to vote What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in. (Politico)

🎧Tune in: Gov. Tim Walz joins us at 11a.m. today for Politics Friday. 
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