Hillary Clinton says people of America ‘should and do trust’ her
US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has dismissed the idea that the American people do not see her as honest and trustworthy to take the White House, insisting that they “should and do trust” her.
“I have every confidence that during the course of this campaign, people will know who will fight for them when they need them, and that’s the person who I am and what I will do if I am president,” Clinton said during her first national TV interview as a 2016 presidential candidate.
She blamed the "barrage of attacks that are largely fomented by and coming from the right" for fueling a perception of untrustworthiness among the majority of voters in the United States.
Clinton claimed that she faced "the same kind of onslaught" in her two New York Senate campaigns and her confirmation as secretary of state.
And that is why a majority of Americans say they do not see her as honest and trustworthy, Clinton told CNN.
A Quinnipiac University Swing State survey, conducted last month, indicated that a majority of swing state voters believe that Clinton is not honest and trustworthy to be the president of the country.
“I think it's understandable that when questions are raised, people maybe are thinking about them and wondering about them," Clinton said.
"This has been a theme that has been used against me and my husband for many, many years. And at the end of the day, I think voters sort it all out," she added.
Clinton was the secretary of state during President Barack Obama’s first term and his primary opponent before that in the 2008 presidential election. She is also the wife of former president Bill Clinton, who was in office from 1993 to 2001.
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