MSNBC anchor Steve Kornacki highlighted Monday that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has gone 268 days without holding a single press conference to answer questions from the media about her campaign.
The last time Clinton held a press conference was on December 4, 2015, when she answered questions from reporters in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Kornacki said that there is no law requiring presidential candidates to hold press conferences on the campaign trail, but he said there is a tradition among previous White House hopefuls to do so.
"There’s no law that says a presidential candidate has to hold a press conference if they don’t want to. They don’t have to if they can get away with it. Maybe that’s the political calculation, but there is a tradition there of candidates coming forward, taking questions from anyone in the press who wants to ask them, being hit with whatever question happens to come to them, and having to deal with it on the spot," Kornacki said.
"That is the tradition of the press conference. It’s one that Hillary Clinton has not had much enthusiasm for though," Kornacki added.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has held 17 press conferences in 2016.