CNN’s Avlon: ‘Something Exhausting’ About Clintons’ ‘Self Inflicted Scandals’

COSTELLO: "John Avlon, Chief Editor of Daily Beast and CNN political analyst. Hi, John."
AVLON: "Hi, Carol."
COSTELLO: "I'd like to explore why Hillary Clinton's unfavorable or unlikability ratings are so high. Why is that?"
AVLON: "Well, she's been the subject of basically sustained attacks for the last nine months. She's been seen as the overwhelmingly likely Democratic nominee. The GOP and the Republican National Committee began focusing attacks on her a long while ago to soften up her support. And things like the e-mail server scandal sort of resuscitate a lot of the negative stereotypes around the Clintons, bringing sort of back a collective PTSD about the self inflicted scandals they get in  and then find a way to pull themselves out of fire. But there is something exhausting about it and that has hurt her. It doesn't change the stature she holds in the Democratic Party, and even though those polls have tightened enormously but its taken a significant hit on likability numbers and that's been, as you have just heard, a recurring theme throughout her own political career."