CNN’s Tapper: Hillary Has a Trustworthiness Problem in Key Battleground States

TAPPER: “Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to The Lead. I'm Jake Tapper. The politics lead. It is 94 degrees right now in North Charleston, South Carolina, where Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton just wrapped up her latest campaign event, but as the summer heat spikes, Clinton's campaign could already by wilting under the glaring spotlight. A spate of new polls show a majority of swing state voters in Florida, in Ohio, and in Pennsylvania, three must-win battleground states in the general election, well, they do not trust Clinton. And while polls are not necessarily prologue, it is early, these numbers do show that there is potentially a very big problem for the Clinton campaign. Our political team is live all over the map literally covering the campaigns. Let's start with CNN senior political correspondent Brianna Keilar. She's with the Clinton campaign in South Carolina today. Brianna, in 2008, as we recall, Clinton got slaughtered in South Carolina by Barack Obama in that primary. It got really ugly. Clinton is there today pitching tax credits for businesses that hire apprentices, but today's poll numbers really again raising an alarm that her trustworthiness remains a concern among key voters.

KEILAR: “That's right, Jake. Many voters don't trust Hillary Clinton. That's what this poll is showing. The campaign, though, I will tell you, is trying to make this more an issue of competence, saying that voters do trust her to serve them.”