Good morning. Soggy then sunny today as some districts in Minnesota return to school. President Donald Trump's campaign to discourage the use of mail-in voting this fall is raising concerns among Republicans , particularly in the key swing state of Wisconsin, that his efforts could hinder their party on election night. Last week, Trump called expanding mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic "the greatest scam in the history of politics" — although there's no evidence to back up his claim that it will lead to widespread voter fraud. "I do sense the skepticism among a lot of Republican voters about the mail-in balloting thing," said Rohn Bishop, the GOP county chairman in Fond du Lac, north of Milwaukee. "They don't trust it, and one of the reasons they don't trust it is the president's previous tweets and comments about it." The stakes are high in Wisconsin, which Trump won by a little more than 22,000 votes in 2016 and is key to any Electoral College path to his reelection. -- Maayan Silver, NPR
Fact check: Trump and Biden records on criminal justice Republicans charge that Americans would not be safe with a President Joe Biden. But murder rates are up this year under President Donald Trump, and both candidates have a mixed record on criminal justice reform. -- Brian Naylor, NPR
Trump administrationends election security briefings for congress. -- AP
The campaign of Democratic U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips has asked law enforcement to investigate a weekend break-in at its Minnetonka office. -- Brian Bakst, MPR News
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