Campaign manager Robby Mook argued Sunday against the idea Hillary Clinton is not “honest and trustworthy” one day after her New York campaign relaunch speech on “Face The Nation.”
Mook told host John Dickerson that “no poll says” voters find Clinton untrustworthy after being pressed over concerns from those left of the aisle, who tell the CBS host her “biggest problem…is trust.”
Mook’s claims go against recent polls showing Clinton to have some of her lowest numbers on the question of honesty and trust.
“When I talk to Democratic strategists, people who even are anxious for her to to be president, they say she can list a lot of things. The biggest problem for her is trust,” Dickerson told the campaign manager. “The voters and the polls have shown this: voters do not trust her. How does she overcome that?”
“First of all, no poll shows that voters don’t trust Hillary,” Mook told the host.
“They don’t find her honest and trustworthy,” Dickerson responded.
“No poll says that,” Mook shot back. “The central question in this race is whether voters can trust Hillary Clinton to be a tenacious fighter for them, to go to bat for them. To push back on stacked deck that has kept middle class behind, and the answer to that is overwhelmingly, yes. Anyone who watched her speech yesterday was abundantly clear: Hillary Clinton will be a tenacious fighter for every day Americans. That’s the question in this election, and voters can trust her to be that fighter.”
“As she said people call her lot of things, but they don’t call her quitter,” Mook continued. “And right now, the middle class needs someone who will not quit and will keep fighting for them every single day.”
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