Democrats in my focus group had a more negative response to Hillary's lies than Republicanshttps://t.co/G0HM1xcODs pic.twitter.com/qjmp0gjcl1
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) August 22, 2016
A veteran Republican pollster tested some of Hillary Clinton's statements about her honesty on a focus group, and the results weren't pretty.
On CBS News on Monday, Frank Luntz showed voters video clips of the Democratic nominee, and Democrats actually reacted more negatively than Republicans when seeing Clinton attempt to defend her honesty.
In the first clip, Clinton tells CBS that she has always "tried" to tell the truth.
A chart on-screen that measured voters' reactions showed the green line, for Democrats, plunging even farther than Republicans' when Clinton insisted that she doesn't believe she's ever lied.
Luntz said it was "one of the worst responses on the campaign trail" he'd ever seen, and "not just in this election."
"You don't try to tell the truth — either you do or you don't," Luntz said. "The more that she said, the lower the line went, not just for Republicans but for Democrats as well."...
Clinton "pins" email scandal on Colin Powell, setting off firestorm https://t.co/hGwPbArwcn pic.twitter.com/mHb3lOw1FV
— The Hill (@thehill) August 22, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump: Colin Powell proved how dishonest @HillaryClinton is. He busted her for trying to pin email scandal on him - OTR #greta
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) August 22, 2016
Hillary's cover up is unraveling -- fast. https://t.co/EQYDu6WQ71
— IBDeditorials (@IBDeditorials) August 22, 2016
.@stephenfhayes: "This is about HRC having made repeated representations that have turned out to be false." pic.twitter.com/iBTsqjV9XB
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 22, 2016
State Department ordered to expedite publishing of 15,000 deleted Clinton emails https://t.co/oLZPCeWigC pic.twitter.com/wjwFxJHBDS
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 22, 2016
Hillary Clinton in July: "There is absolutely no connection between anything that I did as Secretary of State and the Clinton Foundation."
— Liz Kreutz (@ABCLiz) August 22, 2016
Next up: A discourse on the definition of the word "connection." And probably the definition of "no" too. https://t.co/okFdorWmEx
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) August 22, 2016
