The Daily Digest: McDonald fires back at GOP
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In Minnesota
The Republican-endorsed candidate for Minnesota Supreme Court has filed a complaint against the state Republican Party and its leaders, accusing them of trying to push her out of the race. (MPR News)
National Republican groups are spending nearly $1 million on ads in September to oust 8th District DFL Rep. Rick Nolan. (AP via Pioneer Press)
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DFL Gov. Mark Dayton called the troubled roll-out of the MNsure health insurance exchange the single biggest disappointment of his first term but also offered a full-throated defense of the federal health care overhaul. (Star Tribune)
Gov. Mark Dayton plans to get more involved in the nearly $2 billion project that would divert Red River floodwater around the Fargo-Moorhead area. (MPR News)
National Politics
President Obama vowed to "destroy" the Islamic State, a militant group that beheaded an American journalist this week. (New York Times)
Both DFL Sen. Al Franken and his Republican challenger, Mike McFadden, say Obama needs to come up with a better strategy to fight the terrorist group. (MPR News)
The rise of the Islamic State is challenging isolationist-minded Republicans, who had been on the rise in the party. (Washington Post)
House Republican leaders will try to extend the Export-Import Bank’s authorization in the next few weeks. (Politico)
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's new job on Wall Street shows the limits of a 2007 congressional ethics law. (NPR)