Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager anticipates an even further tightening of the presidential race, saying Thursday that the former secretary of state’s path to the White House is “going to be hard.”
“I think the race is close, it’s competitive. We believe it’s going to tighten even further,” Robby Mook told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Clinton’s robust ground operation in crucial battleground states and her outreach to disaffected Republicans shows that her campaign is taking Trump’s candidacy very seriously, Mook said.
“We don’t build a big ground [game] and build all the infrastructure we have here at headquarters and around the country because we think the race is going to be easy,” he noted. “We built that because we think it’s going to be hard.”
Clinton, who squared off with Trump on Wednesday during a presidential forum on foreign policy and national security, currently leads her Republican opponent by 2.8 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics national polling average.
The Democratic presidential hopeful carried double-digit leads over Trump in several national polls released in early August, but new revelations about the Clinton Foundation and her handling of classified information have caused her to rapidly lose such momentum.
