Rep. Mia Love acknowledged she unsuitably raised campaign funds. The Salt Lake Tribune, which published a book about her, went ahead and endorsed her anyway. Here’s what staff of the newspaper had to say about that.

A handful of editors and reporters from The Salt Lake Tribune spoke to the newspaper’s endorsement of Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) to return to Congress even though she acknowledged that she had not suitably obtained funds for a primary election, and the editorial’s relationship to a book the Tribune published about Love as “the next GOP star.”

Federal Election Commission lawyer Danita Alberico emailed Oct. 17 that her colleague, analyst Michael Dobi, was right when telling Love’s finance lawyer, Matthew Sanderson, “that Friends of Mia Love (the campaign) is not required to take any corrective action regarding the primary election contributions” of $1.15 million raised before April 21, when the 2018 Utah Republican Party nominating convention took place.

But the ethics question remains of whether Love should keep that money. That is beside about $372,000, according to Federal Election Commission documentation, raised after the convention.

Love had claimed that she would redesignate approximately $370,000, she told CNN after its investigative report was published, according to the outlet. Yet, Sanderson told KUER that the Alberico and FEC emails “lend support to (Love’s) arguments and make it less likely that…