On Sunday’s Face the Nation, Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, hilariously told CBS’s John Dickerson “no poll shows that voters don’t trust Hillary” despite numerous recent polls that show just the opposite.
Mook’s amazing ability to ignore reality came in response to Dickerson noting how even among Democrats “the biggest problem for her is trust, the voters and the polls have shown this. Voters do not trust her. How does she overcome that?”
After Mook claimed “no poll” shows Clinton to be untrustworthy, Dickerson explained that in fact the polls do show that the American public “don’t find her honest and trustworthy” which the Clinton campaign manager rejected and insisted once again “no poll says that.”
Despite Mook’s claim, several recent polls do show “new speed bumps” for Clinton including a new CNN/ORC poll that found 57% of Americans do not find Clinton “honest and trustworthy” up 49% from March. In addition, a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found similar results, with 52% viewing her as dishonest and untrustworthy.
Instead of facing reality, Mook went into spin mode and maintained “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 this stacked deck that has kept the middle class behind and the answer to that is overwhelmingly, yes."
See relevant transcript below.
CBS’s Face the Nation
June 14, 2015
JOHN DICKERSON: Here’s the question that when I talk to Democratic strategists, people who even are anxious for her to be president. They say she can list a lot of things, the biggest problem for her is trust, the voters and the polls have shown this. Voters do not trust her. How does she overcome that.
ROBBY MOOK: Well, first of all no poll shows that voters don't trust Hillary.
DICKERSON: They don't find her honest and trustworthy
MOOK: Well, no poll says that. First of all 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 this stacked deck that has kept the 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 everyday Americans. That’s the question in this election and voters can trust her to be that fighter. As she said, people call hear lot of things but they don't call her a quitter. And right now the middle class needs someone who will not quit and will keep fighting for them every single day.
