Monday’s Talking Points – May 23, 2016

Good Monday morning from Salt Lake City. Today is the 144th day of the year. There are 222 days left in 2016.

Trump now leads Clinton in a national polling average for the first time. Jonathan Johnson has raised $600,000 from just one donor. Utahns favor the new signature route to the primary ballot.

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Ten talking points for Monday:

  1. Donald Trump has passed Hillary Clinton in an average of head-to-head polls for the first time. Trump holds a 0.2 percent [Politico].
  2. The Obama administration fully lifts the embargo on arms sales to Vietnam [Washington Post].
  3. Speaker Paul Ryan says Donald Trump could win in November, but he’s not “betting” on it [Politico].
  4. Sugar daddy? Overstock.com’s Patrick Byrne has donated $600,000 to Jonathan Johnson‘s gubernatorial campaign. That includes a $250,000 check given just last week [Deseret News, Tribune].
  5. Utahns really like the ability for candidates to get on the primary ballot by gathering signatures according to a new poll [Utah Policy].
  6. Former Gov. Mike Leavitt, who headed up Mitt Romney‘s transition efforts in 2012, is advising Donald Trump‘s transition team in case he wins in November [Utah Policy, Tribune, Deseret News].
  7. Former Gov. Jon Huntsman says he still has many concerns about Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, but he will still support him [The Hill].
  8. An analysis says charter schools in Utah are funneling millions of education dollars to a few private companies [Tribune].
  9. Sen. Todd Weiler floats a proposal to require Utahns to opt-in if they want to view pornography on the internet [Associated Press].
  10. Utah’s unemployment rate inches up slightly to  3.7 percent [Deseret News].

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