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Daily Digest: Will Dems unite?

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Good morning, and welcome to the start of another work week. It's June, but we're still talking about the Legislature. Gov. Mark Dayton and legislative leaders are expected to meet again today to see whether they can agree on a special session agenda. And it looks like Hillary Clinton will tally up enough support this week to lock up the Democratic nomination. Let's go to the Digest.

1. Speaking of the Democratic nomination, Minnesota Democrats met on Saturday to elect the final delegates to the national convention next month in Philadelphia. And because Bernie Sanders did so well at precinct caucuses in the state the delegation from here will be Sanders-heavy. But many elected Democrats in the state are backing Clinton. Their message to Minnesota DFLers was unite to beat Trump. (MPR News)

2. We talked all last week here about Gov. Mark Dayton's conditions for calling a special legislative session. This take from the Star Tribune says Republicans risk going home to run for re-election with little to show for two years of work. (Star Tribune)

3. The tax bill mistake that led Dayton to withhold his signature was meant to be a fairly simple matter to give a break to bingo halls. A person who has been pushing the bingo change for years says he was surprised it even made it into the bill. (Pioneer Press)

4. Some Republicans are calling on Donald Trump to lay off on attacking the judge in the Trump University case for being unfair to him because Trump says he's a Mexican (he was born in Indiana to Mexican immigrants). Now Trump says he might not be able to trust a Muslim judge. (Politico)

5. What could Bernie Sanders have done differently to beat Hillary Clinton? Maybe most importantly, he should have realized from the start that he actually had a chance to do it and planned accordingly. Here's a campaign obituary, even though Sanders contends the campaign isn't over. (Washington Post)