Good morning, and welcome to Thursday. Maybe you, like me, are getting a late start because of the World Series. What a game, and congratulations to the Chicago Cubs. Here’s the Digest.
1. Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan was in the Twin Cities Wednesday night to campaign for Congressman Erik Paulsen in Minnesota’s 3rd District. Ryan called Paulsen a “workhorse” and credited him with abolishing the tax on medical devices. Paulsen’s DFL opponent Terri Bonoff appeared with moderate Republicans and independents who vouched for her as a bipartisan legislator. The state senator from Minnetonka says Paulsen has been more ideological than his GOP predecessor Jim Ramstad. (MPR News)
2. In the final push of campaigning for the state Legislature, Republicans are focusing on Obamacare and MNsure while Democrats want to talk about Donald Trump. With the election just days away both sides are trying to get their message out any way they can. (Star Tribune)
3. The second day of open enrollment for purchasing health insurance on the MNsure exchange went better than the first.MNsure officials said the call volume was similar to past years. In contrast, officials were sent scrambling Tuesday as more than 80,000 call attempts bombarded the MNsure helpline. Officials say they continue to investigate the source of those calls. (MPR News)
4. A number of Republican members of Congress are warning of a “constitutional crisis” if Hillary Clinton wins the White House. They say Clinton could face impeachment if charges result from her use of a private email server as secretary of state. It echos language that Donald Trump has been using on the campaign trail. Meanwhile some Republican members of the Senate are suggesting they wouldn’t confirm members of the Supreme Court nominated by Clinton. (CNN)
5. President Obama weighed in on the FBI investigation into the newly found emails that director James Comey announced last week. Obama told the website Now This News that he trusts Clinton, and while saying he didn’t want to meddle in an ongoing investigation, he took a shot at Comey. “I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations - we don’t operate on innuendo, we don’t operate on incomplete information, we don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made,” Obama said. (NPR)
