Romney: Hillary Clinton a ‘creature of Washington’

Former presidential nominee Mitt Romney says Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is “a creature of Washington” who cannot bring change to the lives of Americans.

“People want to see change and Hillary Clinton is not that person,” the former Republican governor of Massachusetts said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Clinton, the former secretary of state and one-time first lady, has officially announced her second bid for the White House.

"I'm running for president," Clinton said in a video on her campaign website on Sunday afternoon, officially launching a vigorous effort to secure the Democratic nomination for the 2016 elections, seven years after a bitter defeat to Barack Obama.

Clinton, 67, said that she wanted to be a “champion” for ordinary Americans.

Romney said a string of scandals, including her use of private emails for her State Department communications, had eroded the public’s trust in Clinton.

“You see in the polls the feeling that Hillary Clinton is just not that trustworthy,” he said. “People remember with the Clintons that it’s always something.”

Romney argued that Clinton lacked a “new message” on economic policy and her foreign policy records while serving as secretary of state in President Obama’s first term had been a “bust”

Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, also dismissed Clinton as “someone the American people can't trust."

“Why should Americans trust her? Her record is disappointing. Her rhetoric is hypocritical. And she thinks the rules do not apply to her. The last time she held a press conference she lied repeatedly to the American public. Is that really what America wants from our next president? Four years of lies? Four years of scandal? Four years of failed policies,” he said in an interview with CBS on Sunday.

President Obama endorsed Clinton on Saturday, casting her as an “excelled president” for the United States.

"She was a formidable candidate in 2008. She was a great supporter of mine in the general election. She was an outstanding secretary of state. She is my friend," Obama said at a regional summit in Panama.

Clinton became the third major politician to officially announce their White House bid. Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have recently announced that they are running for president.

Marco Rubio, the first-term Republican senator from Florida, is expected to make his presidential aspirations public on Monday.

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