On the trail
Donald Trump's charitable foundation has never obtained the certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public, according to the state attorney general's office. If New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman finds Trump's foundation raised money in violation of the law, he could order the charity to stop raising money immediately. With a court's permission, he could also force Trump to return money his foundation has already raised.
Gary Johnson has been endorsed for president by the Detroit News. The endorsement of the Libertarian candidate was the first time in the newspaper's 143-year history that it has not backed a Republican. It said that it doesn't agree with Hillary Clinton on the issues and that Donald Trump "is unprincipled, unstable and quite possibly dangerous."
Kellyanne Conway denied that one of Donald Trump's businesses violated the U.S.-Cuban embargo in 1998, dismissing an investigative report in Newsweek that accused Trump of knowingly spending $68,000 staking out an investment on the island. "Read the entire story. It starts out with a screaming headline, as it usually does, that he did business in Cuba. And it turns out that he decided not to invest there. I think they paid money, as I understand from the story, in 1998," Trump's campaign manager said. Under the embargo, it would have been against the law to spend any money on the island.
Hillary Clinton received a boost among voters under 30 in key battleground states in a poll conducted after Monday's first presidential debate. A poll released Thursday by Public Policy Polling shows Clinton with at least a 19-point lead among voters under 30 in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The poll also showed those voters saw Clinton as the clear winner of Monday's debate.
Donald Trump abruptly resurrected Bill Clinton's impeachment on Thursday, adding the former president's infidelities to the already-rancorous 2016 campaign. Trump warned voters in battleground New Hampshire that a Hillary Clinton victory would bring her husband's sex scandal back to the White House. "The American people have had it with years and decades of Clinton corruption and scandal," Trump charged.
Anne Holton, wife of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, campaigned at Big River Pizza in St. Paul on Thursday. Story, B1
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