Cummings: Donors ‘Not Happy’ with How the Clinton Camp Manages FBI Investigation

‘Even her donors want them to manage it in a more aggressive way’

MITCHELL: “And today there's a new Monmouth poll, Clinton with Biden – well, with Bernie Sanders and Biden both in this down ten with registered voters. Jeanne Cummings, what is the poll impact with Bernie Sanders on the rise, Bernie Sanders now beating Hillary Clinton according to the Marist poll in New Hampshire and also really gaining on her in Iowa, and Biden doing better than anybody against Republicans?” 

CUMMINGS: “Yes. She’s definitely got a lot of work to do and her campaign is well aware of that. If you --- that last poll that showed Biden at 20 percent, he took 10 percent from her. He carved right into her base. She was at 52, dropped to 42, he went up 10, so you could see the impact that he would have. He would cut into her base. The campaign is well aware of it. They not only are having to reboot their approach on the trail as Anne was speaking of but also they’re having to deal with some donors who have gotten pretty rattled by their handling of the e-mail controversy. It's not that anybody is jumping ship but they aren't happy with how the campaign is managing that particular investigation, in large measure because it will not go away. There are going to be batches of e-mail that get dropped every month from now until December, she’s got testimony coming up on the Hill. They are going to have to learn to live with this thing -- and even her donors want them to manage it in a more aggressive way.”

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