AP’s Lisa Lerer: Monthly Release of Emails ‘Bad’ for Hillary Clinton

LERER: “Right. This e-mail thing, there's little question that this e-mail thing is a problem for Hillary Clinton. Now, you know, folks in the Clinton campaign, the Clinton camp say look we know there's a section of the country that will never vote for Hillary Clinton. This e-mail situation reaffirms what they already think. But the danger here is that it sets an early narrative about her campaign. We saw that with Mitt Romney, right. Democrats were really effective, painting him as this heartless plutocrat. So if Republicans are able to use these e-mails to make Hillary look like this Washington creature who will do anything to win, that's bad for her. We're seeing a drop in her numbers and it might well be attributed to those e-mails. And there's also because of the court case there's a monthly disclosure of these e-mails that's mandated by the court. So that means every month there's going to be another spate of stories. That's bad for her.”