Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Friday he found it stunning how bad a candidate Hillary Clinton has been.
A CNN/ORC poll released Thursday shows that Clinton’s lead over Bernie Sanders has fallen to 10 points. The poll found that Clinton’s support among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters fell to 37 percent, Bernie Sanders at 27 percent and the still undecided Vice President Joe Biden at 20 percent. Biden’s support gained six points in the past month even though he has yet to announce.
Steve Schale said on Friday’s Newsroom with Carol Costello that in order for Clinton to improve in the polls that she must continue to answer questions until the controversy goes away. Schale defended Clinton’s sinking poll numbers by saying that she just had a bad month of August, but Sabato disagreed.
"It is stunning how bad of a candidate she has been, to take six months to stop the drip, drip, drip on the email server and it may not stop. But to take six months to do what some of her senior team and urged her to do at the very beginning is remarkable," Sabato said.
Sabato went on to say that Clinton could potentially come back and be a strong candidate but has "absolutely bombed as a candidate over the past six months".
The Clinton campaign has released a statement saying that Clinton will be showing more of her "spontaneous and humorous side." Thursday afternoon, Clinton appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show where she awkwardly danced with the host. On MSNBC’s Friday broadcast of Morning Joe, Chuck Todd said that with Clinton’s continually sinking poll numbers, her donors are starting to panic.
In a CNN/ORC hypothetical general election matchup, Clinton loses to both Ben Carson and Jeb Bush but ties Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.