MSNBC reporter Alex Seitz-Wald announced Tuesday that he has found a voter who cares about the Hillary Clinton email scandal—a voter whose very existence defies Democrats who have insisted that voters don’t give a hoot about the scandal.
"The very first voter I spoke to yesterday in Pittsburgh was a woman—a Democrat—who said to me she really wants to see a woman president and thought Hillary Clinton would have made a great candidate, past-tense," Seitz-Wald said. "With the whole question about these emails, she said that even if Republicans completely made this up she's not sure she can trust Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee in 2016."
This disaffected voter is in good company as the email scandal drags on, burying Clinton’s poll numbers in the process.
A Monmouth University poll released Tuesday found that Clinton’s support in the Democratic primary has fallen almost 20 points since April. A Quinnipiac University poll released late last month found that the word most often associated with Clinton is "liar," a finding likely driven by Clinton’s email scandal.
"Just the general cloud of questions, of suspicions, this drip, drip, drip of stories, that does break through," Seitz-Wald said.
The CIA confirmed on Monday that Clinton’s private emails contained top secret information at the time it was received. This contradicts Clinton’s earlier account of what was contained on the unsecured email server.
The tone Clinton’s campaign is using to address the email scandal is softening as voters have expressed their concerns in recent polling. After refusing to apologize Monday, Clinton gave in Tuesday.
"That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility," Clinton said in an interview with ABC News anchor David Muir.