Maggie Haberman said Hillary Clinton's refusal to address the email scandal in the beginning exacerbated the fallout and has been "damaging" to the Democratic nominee, according to a story on
CNN.
The New York Times reporter, who has covered Clinton for decades, told David Axelrod on his
"The Axe Files" podcast that, whatever Clinton's motivation was for not addressing it, she's paying for it now.
"I think it was damaging because [the Clinton campaign] let it go way too long without answering it," Haberman said.
The key question then, is why?
"She just didn't want to deal with it," Haberman told Axelrod. "The impulse was to act as if this was something unfair being done to her as opposed to looking at she did this thing that was ill-advised, that she herself has acknowledged was ill-advised."
Though Haberman said her belief is that Clinton doesn't actually believe she did anything wrong.
"The problem is that it was directly at odds with how President (Barack) Obama viewed transparency on records keeping," Haberman told Axelrod.
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