Capitol View Daily Digest for October 3, 2016

Good morning and welcome to Monday. Did we get an October surprise over the weekend with a partial leak of Donald Trump’s taxes? Let’s take a look at the Digest.

1. The two major party candidates for Congress in Minnesota’s 2nd District have one thing in common: Neither Jason Lewis nor Angie Craig has ever held elected office. That’s rare in a Minnesota congressional race, and it means that the campaigns are focusing on the candidates’ private-sector experience as they try to build their cases for the voters. (MPR News)

2. Younger voters turned out in big numbers for Barack Obama in the last two presidential elections. Polls show that Hillary Clinton leads among millennials, but some say they’re not excited to vote for her. Clinton’s campaign is trying to change that, and Bernie Sanders will be in at college campuses in Minneapolis and Duluth this week trying to fire them up. But there’s still a big question about whether she can change that lack of enthusiasm. (Star Tribune)

3. Minnesota’s Commerce Commissioner says the individual health insurance market is in danger of collapse. Mike Rothman said that late last week as he announced big premium increases for people who buy insurance on the individual market, about 5 percent of the population."These rising insurance rates are unsustainable and unfair," Rothman said. "This is a real emergency situation." (Pioneer Press)

4. The story everybody seemed to be talking about over the weekend was that three pages of tax documents mailed anonymously to the New York Times showed Donald Trump’s businesses lost $916 million in 1995, which meant that he could have avoided paying federal income taxes for 18 years. Trump’s campaign issued a statement that said:"Mr. Trump is a highly-skilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required. That being said, Mr. Trump has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes." Trump has still not released his taxes. (New York Times)

5. On the Sunday shows Trump’s surrogates said if he hadn’t paid taxes for years it showed that he was a “genius.” Meanwhile Democrats and Clinton supporters pointed out that the tax records indicated that Trump was a failure in business who was taking advantage of tax laws that ordinary Americans can’t even conceive of."If everybody in this country was a genius like Mr. Trump is, not paying any taxes, we would not have a country," Bernie Sanders told ABC News. (Politico)