Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook made the baseless claim during an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday that polls do not indicate that voters don’t trust Hillary Clinton.
CBS anchor John Dickerson particularly cited the fact that Democratic strategists and Clinton allies even acknowledge that trustworthiness is Hillary’s “biggest problem” — a problem that “polls have shown” — and wondered how the former secretary of state will “overcome” such a roadblock throughout her campaign.
“No poll shows that voters don’t trust Hillary Clinton,” Mook responded, evidently ignoring the CNN/ORC poll released earlier this month that indicated 57 percent of American voters do not label Clinton trustworthy and a mere 42 percent believe the phrase “honest and trustworthy” applies to her.
Even Millennials shrink from trusting Clinton amid her private email and Clinton Foundation controversies.
Of course, as a journalist who relies on facts, Dickerson challenged Mook, saying, “They don’t find her honest and trustworthy.”
“Well, no poll says that,” Mook pressed on. “First of all, the central question in this race is whether voters can trust Hillary Clinton to be a tenacious fighter for them, to go to bat for them, to push back on the stacked deck that has kept the middle class behind. And the answer to that is overwhelmingly yes.”
Yet, Mook begs the wrong question. It’s not whether voters can trust her, it’s whether they do. And the answer to that question, according to polling, is overwhelmingly no.
