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Brett Neely

The Daily Digest: The DFL’s financial edge

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In Minnesota

The DFL and its candidates has a major fundraising edge over Republicans in the race to hold the state Capitol. (MPR News)

And DFLers will need that money to defend 15 vulnerable seats in the state House that are key to retaining the majority. (MPR News)

Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson has launched the first television ad of his general election campaign. (MPR News)

Johnson's ad campaign will be supplemented by the Minnesota branch of a national conservative group that says it will run ads and have volunteers call voters to defeat Dayton. (MPR News)

Still, there are fewer campaign ads on Minnesota TV this election cycle than there were in 2010. (AP via Pioneer Press)

Republicans in the Minnesota Senate are calling for an ethics investigation of Sen. Jeff Hayden, DFL-Minneapolis, whom they accuse of using his elected office for personal gain. (MPR News)

Republicans and gun rights advocates seized on a photo op of Congressman Rick Nolan holding an assault rifle, saying that he was holding the weapon incorrectly and should get firearms training from stores owned by his opponent. (Star Tribune)

An NRCC ad that charges Nolan is soft on terrorists gets run through the PoliGraph. (MPR News)

National Politics

President Obama challenged world leaders Wednesday to join the United States in confronting a series of global crises that had bred a “pervasive sense of unease,” as he sought to reassert American leadership abroad at a critical juncture. (Washington Post)

Republicans are doubling down on terrorism as a campaign message. (AP via Pioneer Press)

If Republicans don't win the Senate this fall, a lot of fingers will likely be pointed at Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts and his bumbling re-election campaign. (Washington Post)

A look at the corporate donors who play a major role in the Republican and Democratic Governors Associations. (New York Times)

And...voters haven't weighed in yet but here's a first take on the worst campaigns of 2014. (Politico)