Daily Digest: The Democrats are in town
Good morning and welcome to Friday. Fresh off their debate last night Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will be in Minnesota today at the annual Humphrey-Mondale Dinner, a fundraiser for the state DFL Party. Sanders is also appearing at an afternoon forum in north Minneapolis convened by Neighborhoods Organizing for Change.
Let's start the Digest by looking at what happened at the debate last night.
1. The two candidates agreed on a lot and disagreed on key areas such as whose plans would actually work and who was a bigger supporter of President Obama. (Washington Post)
2. Clinton did not come off as someone who just suffered a double-digit loss in New Hampshire. (New York Times)
3. So far voters seem split between Sanders and Clinton along generational lines. (MPR News)
4. A Twin Cities man pleaded guilty to terrorist charges for wanting to join ISIS. But he said online videos, not anything he heard at a local mosque, compelled him to join. (MPR News)
5. The state Health Department has discovered decades long problems with water tests which may have masked the level of some contaminants in drinking water. (Star Tribune)
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