Jay Carney on Clinton’s Low Trustworthy Numbers: ‘It’s a Challenge for Her’

‘I think it’s much more of a challenge for her in a general election when she’s the nominee which I think we all expect she will be’

CUOMO: “The explanation aside, though, you know the questions remain. You’re seeing it in the exit polls. If we put up Oklahoma, that’s where Bernie sanders won. You know that, obviously. Massachusetts, that was a hotly contested state. Hillary Clinton won there. But in both of them, trustworthiness, Hillary Clinton, lucky to get over 50 percent in her own party. Fueling that is what she calls the drip, drip, drip with the e-mails. Now you have one of her guys having to plead the fifth before he would talk to the feds. And now the logs being brought into the investigation. It suggests there is their there. Your response?” 
CARNEY: “Look, there’s no question that the Clintons have been on the political stage, the national political stage for a long time and they’ve been the subject of a barrage of criticism and investigation and accusations. That — and that’s —“
CUOMO: “This is the FBI, though, not Trey Gowdy, Jay.”
CARNEY: “No, I hear you. And, look, this is — this is a challenge for her. I think it’s much more of a challenge for her in the general election when she’s the nominee, which I think we all expect she will be. But, you know, that — that’s an issue for her that she’s going to have to contest. And the way you contest it is you — you deal with the issue. You realize that you don’t have total control over it because an investigation is not something you can spin or control, and then you focus on your campaign message about, you know, sound governance and helping the middle class and see where that takes you. You can’t — you can’t spend a lot of time worrying about things out of your control.”

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