Voters aren’t the only ones who lack trust in Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of state’s campaign staffers are also losing faith in their boss, according to Bloomberg Politics’ Mark Halperin.
During the show he co-hosts daily with John Heilemann, Halperin laid out what he surmises is ailing the Clinton operation, which sustained a major blow in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries with a 22-point loss to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The problems, according to Halperin:
That she’s not a great candidate, that her message is still really muddy, and that she’s swimming upstream, that she’s running as the change candidate against a guy who is just always going to win on who represents change. And then the last thing is — this always happens in a Clinton campaign when things go bad — there are now tensions between her and her staff. They don’t trust her to do the right thing, she’s losing confidence in them. It’s not a dire situation, it can be turned around it, but it’s currently not so great.
“You saw that coming a mile away,” Heilemann said of the tension and looming shake up within Clinton’s camp. He said that when he first talked to Clinton officials after they signed up for the campaign they openly joked about when the would get fired “when the first shake up would be, or the first layering or whatever it was.”
Days before the New Hampshire primary, rumors began to surface that a campaign overhaul was brewing. The campaign has disputed the claim.
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