Liberal Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart said Hillary Clinton's "silence" in the wake of negative stories about her tenure at the State Department and the Clinton Foundation were the cause of her poor polling numbers.
A new CNN poll out Tuesday showed Clinton badly underwater with 42 percent of respondents finding her honest and only 46 percent approving overall.
Tuesday on MSNBC"s Morning Joe, Capehart said Clinton needed to begin answering the tough questions about allegations of pay-for-play at State once she effectively relaunches her campaign June 13 in New York.
"I think the problem is the stories have been coming one way. It's just been an avalanche of bad stories with pretty much silence coming from the Clinton camp," he said. "After that big speech on the 13th or hopefully before, she'll start taking questions from the press and depending again on how she answers those questions will determine whether she can flip those poll numbers back over. Because right now, all the public has to go on is everything that's coming from the press with no response whatsoever from the Clinton campaign."