Hillary Clinton surrogate Brian Fallon said voters are taking her private email scandal and choosing her anyway during an appearance Monday on CNN.
CNN Newsroom host Carol Costello showed a clip of Hillary Clinton speaking with George Stephanopoulos justifying her private email server use on ABC's This Week.
"Everybody in the department knew that I was emailing from a personal address," Clinton said. "Hundreds of people knew it. People around the government knew it, and, you know, that was what the practice had been and that's what I did as well."
"And, you know, she's talking about the Inspector General's report that Hillary Clinton broke the rules by using that private email server and that was her response," Costello said. "It's sort of like nobody knew about it but nobody did anything about it. Does it make her appear more trustworthy?"
Fallon first wanted to point out another part of the answer where she said that she "regrets it and admits it was a mistake."
Further, he explained that this issue has been in the media for over a year now, so at this point in the election, he believes that voters have factored this into their decision and picked her anyway.
"This issue has been out there in the public, litigated for well over a year," Fallon said. "The facts of this are known ... Voters have factored it in, and amidst all the discussion on this issue, Hillary Clinton has only managed to lead all other contenders. Not just Bernie Sanders but Donald Trump, too, in terms of the number of raw votes she's earned. She's on her way to becoming the first female nominee of a major party in American history, so I think that the public has rendered a judgment that they want to keep the focus on the issues that matter most."
"Even with these numbers from Quinnipiac, you feel that way?" Costello asked.
A Quinnipiac poll that looked at the likelihood of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to win swing states found:
The Swing State Poll showed:
Florida: Clinton at 43 percent with 42 percent for Trump;
Ohio: Clinton at 39 percent, with 43 percent for Trump;
Pennsylvania: Clinton at 43 percent, with 42 percent for Trump.
He finished the segment by saying that in the general election, this will be a contrast between Clinton and Trump.
"I think in general we're seeing that voters are going to decide that Hillary Clinton is the person that they can trust to stand in their corner and fight for the issues that they care about," he said.