Good Monday morning. Tomorrow brings the first presidential debate and another presidential visit to Minnesota. Minnesota Poll: Most think Senate should wait on Supreme Court confirmation The latest MPR News/Star Tribune/KARE-11 Minnesota Poll finds 55 percent of registered Minnesota voters think the Senate should not vote on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee before the November election. On Saturday, Trump nominated conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the open seat; the poll was completed before Barrett’s nomination. The poll also shows that incumbent Sen. Tina Smith has a lead over her challenger Jason Lewis. (MPR News)
On Saturday the Minnesota Poll published new numbers showing that Biden has an edge over Trump.
The president has paid little to no income tax in over a decade. An in depth report from the New York Times examined more than 20 years of Trump's returns . Since entering the White House, Trump has broken with tradition set by his predecessors by not only refusing to release his tax returns but by waging a legal battle to keep them hidden. The Times report suggests why that might have been so. It reported that many of Trump's top businesses are losing money, even as those losses have helped him shrink his federal tax bill to essentially nothing. (AP)
Columnist and author Timothy O'Brien argues that the returns show "Trump is a national security threat" (Bloomberg).
Trump is scheduled make another campaign stop in Minnesota with a rally scheduled at Duluth airport Wednesday.
A federal appeals court on Sunday temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential election, a momentary victory for Republicans and President Donald Trump in the key presidential battleground state. As it stands, ballots will now be due by 8 p.m. on Election Day. A lower court judge had sided with Democrats and their allies to extend the deadline until Nov. 9. Democrats sought more time as a way to help deal with an expected historic high number of absentee ballots. ( AP)
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