Daily Digest: A rush to Rubio
Good morning and welcome to Tuesday. The Republican caucuses in Nevada are tonight, and we're just a week away from Super Tuesday and the Minnesota caucuses. Let's go to the Digest.
1. Another police officer is in trouble over offensive Facebook posts, this time in Rochester. (MPR News)
2. Minnesota's high school graduation rate inched up last year, and the racial achievement gap narrowed; but not by much. (MPR News)
3. One Republican state legislator wants to block a plan to reduce prison sentences for drug crimes in Minnesota. (Star Tribune)
4. U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison is leading Bernie Sanders' effort to appeal to black voters in Minnesota. (Star Tribune)
5. I mentioned yesterday that Tim Pawlenty and Norm Coleman endorsed Marco Rubio, who will be in Minneapolis later today. So did U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen along with a host of other elected officials who now see Rubio as their only hope to defeat Donald Trump. (Washington Post)
6. It's hard to believe how much money Jeb Bush spent running for the GOP nomination and what his campaign spent it on. (New York Times)
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