Even when you have a leftist biased NBC poll, Americans still don’t trust the Butcher of Benghazi Hillary Clinton.
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| Americans don’t trust Hillary Clinton according to NBC leftist poll |
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Today, 38% of voters say she is “honest and straightforward,” compared with 40% who say she isn’t. That figure is better for Mrs. Clinton than in March 2008, during the Democratic primaries, when 33% said she was honest and 43% said she wasn’t. But she may have trouble making up more of that ground as she moves out of her self-imposed break from politics and is increasingly seen as a 2016 presidential candidate.
“She’s a mature political figure where people have decided views and it’s not surprising that as she moves from being secretary of State to a candidate, she goes through a different filter in how she’s being viewed,” said pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies, which conducted the poll along with Hart Research Associates.
A week into her book tour, Mrs. Clinton has faced criticism that she hasn’t given straight answers. She had to quickly walk back her comment that she and Bill Clinton were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2001 and struggled when asked when she began favoring gay marriage, during an interview with NPR’s Terry Gross.