Steve Schmidt: ‘Ludicrous’ To Argue Voters Care About Hillary Avoiding Press

TAMARA KEITH: But will avoiding reporter questions hurt her with voters?

STEVE SCHMIDT: The premise of your question presupposes that the way that Hillary Clinton needs to reach voters is through the national media. And that’s simply not the case anymore.

TAMARA KEITH: Steve Schmidt is a Republican strategist. He says a campaign as sophisticated as Clinton’s can bypass the media filter and target voters directly.

STEVE SCHMIDT: The notion that real voters worried about real issues cares one whit about how often a presidential candidate talks to their traveling press corps or answers questions from them is just ludicrous. It’s not the case.