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Dem VP Candidate Defends Clinton’s Questionable Media Availability

Clinton also just announced she would begin next week to allow her campaign’s press corps to travel with her on her plane. He promised ABC News that if elected, “Hillary Clinton will hold press conferences”.

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To this point, the traveling press corps has been confined to chartered planes that shadow the candidates.

The comment left some reporters rather annoyed, with a reporter at The Fix saying ‘at least they are transparent in their contempt’.

Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, heavily criticized Hillary Clinton’s media non-presence during a Tuesday interview on MSNBC.

However, Thrush later explained in an email to Mediaite that the unidentified aide’s remark was made in jest.

“There will be a lot of different opportunities for me to talk to the press”. “I hope you ask her about immigration”.

Beyond keeping with tradition, there are also practical reasons for members of the press to travel with candidates.

On Wednesday, the candidate infuriated reporters when his plane landed in Los Angeles to continue on a trip to Mexico, when the press plane was diverted to Phoenix, the site of his next US campaign stop. Clinton has used a small private jet to ferry her and her traveling campaign staff between events.

Clinton’s last formal press conference was 272 days ago. “It really is”, she said, avoiding the questions as she bit into a salted caramel truffle.

It is true that she has held several interviews with local and national reporters, including this one. Clinton was not under oath during the three-hour interview, of which there is no transcript, just an 11-page summary.

However, NPR noted that 65 of the interviews were conducted by people they ‘did not classify as journalists or in settings that would be considered journalistic, even using expansive definitions’.

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The real reason Clinton has an aversion to press conferences, though, is that it would pressure her to tell the truth-or at least try to tell the truth-about her private server, her handling of classified material and other related scandals.

Hillary Clinton will finally start letting journalists travel with her on her campaign plane