Hiding Hillary: 272 Days Since Last Clinton Press Conference

ABC News reported late last night that come Labor Day, Hillary Clinton will be upgrading her campaign jet to accommodate reporters as she travels across the country to campaign events.

By finally allowing reporters onto her campaign jet, Clinton is following in the footsteps of other presidential nominees — albeit very late in the game. As the New York Times pointed out this week, the press have been traveling with presidential candidates on their planes since the early 1960’s. So far this election cycle, Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate Mike Pence is the only person out of the two presidential tickets to invite press on his plane.

In addition to keeping press off of her campaign plane, Clinton has not held a formal press conference for 272 days, since December 2015. When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked her why she hadn’t held a press conference this year, she said: “I had my team check. I have done nearly 300 interviews just in 2016 and I believe it’s important to continue to, you know, speak to the press as I’m doing right now.”

Right. In a controlled environment … to one reporter. There’s a difference between granting an interview to a reporter where the candidate has a lot of control, and an open press conference where the candidate will have to take questions on a host of topics. And if this is the way Clinton is conducting her campaign, how secretive will she be if she becomes president? (For more from the author of “Hiding Hillary: 272 Days Since Last Clinton Press Conference” please click HERE)

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