NBC's Meet the Press host Chuck Todd broke down a new poll showing Hillary Clinton underwater in favorability in the swing states of Iowa, Virginia and Colorado Thursday on Andrea Mitchell Reports, saying if he were a member of the campaign, his reaction would be, "Oh, no."
In the Quinnipiac poll, Clinton lost hypothetical matchups in all three states to Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), Scott Walker and Jeb Bush, and she was viewed far more unfavorably than favorably in each place as well.
"Something is amiss here ... If I'm the Clinton campaign, I look at these numbers, I'm like, 'Oh no,'" Todd said. "And I'm going in the field myself to see, is it an outlier or are they onto something? I think that's how all of us should take in these polls ... It wasn't just Hillary who was poor in these polls. It was Democrats across the board."
Todd also addressed Clinton's remarks Thursday that being a woman offered her a unique perspective to bring to the White House, suggesting that was a reaction to the surge of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), who has garnered enthusiasm with the party's left wing. Echoing remarks he made earlier in the week, Todd said Clinton "doesn't wear well over time" when she is the center of attention.
"These polls came right at a time when you look at [how] her small donor base seemed pretty mediocre," Todd said. "Bernie Sanders is the one drawing crowds, she's not the one drawing crowds ... It's fitting a pattern where Hillary Clinton doesn't wear well over time when she's been a candidate or been at the focal point. We have a data point here that hasn't been great, a data point here that hasn't been great, and now suddenly this adds to it."
Todd said everybody watching the campaign had come to the same conclusion: "There's something just not quite right."
"Is it enthusiasm? I don't know," he said. "Is it her? I don't know. There's just something that doesn't seem to be big, bold and boom."