Good morning, and congratulations for making it to Election Day. Time to vote if you haven’t already. We’ll have complete results and analysis starting on the radio tonight at 7, with Minnesota results coming in once the polls close after 8. Hope you can join us on the air and online. Here’s the Digest.
1. Candidates, volunteers and various politicians and officeholders in Minnesota spent Monday making one last push to get their supporters motivated to vote. Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence held a rally in Duluth. The candidates for Congress met with voters. Democrats traveled the state revving up volunteers. (MPR News)
2. During his speech at the Twin Cities airport on Sunday Donald Trump saidthat Minnesota had “suffered enough” for taking in thousands of Somali refugees. He said Minnesota had seen first-hand the problems caused by what he described as faulty refugee vetting, “with large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval, and with some of them then joining ISIS and spreading their extremist views all over our country and all over the world.” Many Somalis and others objected to the remarks. (MPR News)
3. No excuse absentee voting was big in Minnesota this year. It was the first presidential year the state allowed that form of early voting, and people took advantage of it. By the start of the day Monday more than 568,000 people had already voted. Four years from now there will likely be more places where people can vote early in person, because there were some long lines this year. It will be interesting to see what impact the big early turnout has on traditional voting today. (Star Tribune)
4. Donald Trump said Monday it would have been impossible for the FBI to read 650,000 emails in nine days. That was how many emails were thought to be on Anthony Weiner’s computer. Trump was right, but apparently the FBI didn’t have to read all 650,000, and many emails they did look at were duplicates of ones they already had. (New York Times)
5. Hillary Clinton tried to finish the campaign on a positive note, while Donald Trump ended the last day of the campaign by calling Clinton “corrupt.” The two each wrapped up a long day Monday with late-night rallies, Clinton in North Carolina and Trump in Michigan."We choose to believe in a hopeful, inclusive, big-hearted America," Clinton said at a big rally in Philadelphia."Do you want America to be ruled by the corrupt political class, or do you want America to be ruled again by the people?" asked Trump at a packed arena in New Hampshire, adding "Hillary Clinton's only allegiance is to herself, her donors and her special interests." (Washington Post)
