NBC's Chuck Todd unloaded on the avalanche of bad polling Hillary Clinton has been hit with Friday, saying any time you think she's hit bottom, "there's a new bottom," and that donors have to be "panicking" at the news.
Clinton has slipped 10 points among Democrats in the past month, and she lost hypothetical match-ups with Ben Carson (51-to-46 percent) and Jeb Bush (49-to-47), while tying with Donald Trump (48-48) in a new CNN/ORC poll. Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough pointed out that any lead Clinton had with women was "wiped out" against Carson and Bush.
"This has been one of the worst months for Hillary Clinton that I can remember any candidate having, especially in August, where there's not supposed to be news," Scarborough said. "She's dropped 10 points in just about every poll, and here you actually have Ben Carson and Jeb Bush ahead of her."
"Every time you think, ok, when is she at bottom, it feels like there's a new bottom," Todd said. "A month ago, when she was having bad poll numbers, when it was starting to go down, one of the things they hung their hat on is, well, as bad as her numbers may look, she's still in better shape when matched up against any Republican. Well, that's not happening anymore. This is just pile after pile after pile."
Todd said it's when her "electability is in question" that the hand-wringing begins.
"That's when donors start panicking," Todd said. "I think they are panicking."
Clinton recently apologized for the private email scandal that has haunted her campaign since March after repeatedly defending her conduct. The saga of her non-secured server at the State Department has badly hurt her numbers on trustworthiness and favorability, and upstart Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) has taken leads in polls in the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire.