Clinton Spox Brian Fallon Blames Clinton Struggles in New Hampshire on GOP

GUTHRIE: “You’ve mentioned Sanders has this commanding lead in most of the polls. Do you think it’s in the realm of possibility for Hillary Clinton to get it into the single digits tonight?”
FALLON: “Well I think that most of the polls show us trailing by double digits, but we’re going to work our heart out. We have been doing that all week. And she was with President Clinton yesterday, at [indecipherable] having breakfast, meeting voters. This morning, she was at the Varney school in Manchester’s ward 10. So we’re out there. She was door knocking with a Senator D’Alessandro, over the weekend. So she’s doing the hard retail campaigning. We’re trying to cut into his lead, but it’s going to be an uphill climb.”
TODD: “All right.”
GUTHRIE: “How do you explain that lead though? I mean, saying he’s a regional candidate does not seem to be sufficient to explain away a double-digit difference between them.”
FALLON: “Well, I think there’s a few factors. I think that’s a big one. It looms large. The ‘New York Times’ had a story the other day talking about on the western side of the state, that [indecipherable] media market bleeds in. And over the course of 25 years in Congress, which is, you know, true for Senator Sanders. He likes to talk about the fact he’s running against the establishment. He happens to have served in Congress for 25 years. That’s a lot of labor, breakfasts, coming across the border, making appearances and generating good will in New Hampshire. So he’s a known quantity here. And also I do think it’s no small thing that the Republican fire has been aimed at Hillary Clinton. And that’s been true of all the Republican candidates [indecipherable] stumping throughout New Hampshire.”