Rick Klein notes “the image of a roped-off, moving press scrum trailing Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire didn’t shatter democracy. But for a candidate whose chief rival is drawing record crowds (and whom nobody thought could be Clinton’s rival to anything), strictly controlled access hardly projects a willingness to engage with voters and the press.”
First Read: “Look, we get that Clinton is the only 2016 candidate so far who has Secret Service protection (because she’s a former first lady), which presents challenges for the candidate and the press in a parade setting. We also get that she was trying to talk to crowd, not to reporters. And we get that Hillary (because she’s the frontrunner and because of her past history with the press) is rarely going to get the benefit of the doubt on this type of story. But come on: This was such an unforced error and bad optics — on an event that was ALL ABOUT the optics.”
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