Number of Days Since Hillary Clinton Held A Press Conference: 87

[SoapBox]

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/number-days-hillary-clinton-held-press-conference-87-n528366

FEB 29 2016, 4:15 PM ET

BOSTON, Mass. - It's been 87 days since Hillary Clinton held a press conference, months longer than any other presidential candidate left in the 2016 race.

Taking questions from a traveling press corps is standard for any presidential candidate, especially once early states get underway and voters head into the critical Super Tuesday contests. But in a campaign that has been plagued by access issues, many of the reporters covering Clinton are frustrated and wondering whether this pattern will continue.

The Clinton campaign argues that pressers aren't as important when the candidate is doing regular interviews with local and national print, television and radio outlets.

"Since the beginning of December, she's done over 160 interviews for a total of more than 26 hours, including with those that travel with her," Nick Merrill, Clinton's traveling press secretary, told NBC News.

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[grasswire]

1. she doesn't travel with reporters

She uses a separate private plane, and reporters are not allowed to photograph her boarding or deplaning her private plane. She sits in her limo until the reporters board their own plane and take off.

[SoapBox]

3. All I can do is shake my head.

I'll never forget how her staff "roped her off" during a 4th of July parade...all to keep the media away.

[Hortensis]

8. "The truth is, she cares for the same people as Bernie does --

those who are left out. The difference is that she understands -- through years of experience and activism -- that American revolutions have never occurred overnight. Even the LGBT revolution, unusually swift as it was, is happening 47 years after the Stonewall riots in New York City. Change happens in America, more rapidly than in other countries but we move forward step by step."

Part of endorsement of Hillary Clinton from Vermont's past governor Madeleine Kunin

[SoapBox]

2. Just had to add this part...

Reporters that cover Clinton travel on a separate plane, another major difference.

[Hoyt]

4. All the debates, town hall meetings, TV appearances, campaign stops, etc., don't count?

[Indepatriot]

5. The Palin Strategy....

[angrychair]

6. What does it matter

They have failed to do their job.
We have a Democratic Party presidential candidate that is under federal investigation for serious crimes yet you wouldn't know it by the way they talk to or interview her.
(fyi, Please don't insult my intelligence or your own by making excuses or spinning tales of "vast right-wing conspiracies" or laughable attacks on news sources. That is bullshit. What is happening is real. There are real federal judges. Real FBI agents. Real IGs. Real reports from real intelligence agencies. Real Justice department attorneys.)

[nc4bo]

7. She doesn't need to. The "press" is already working hard on her behalf. In addition,

Having press conferences means risking someone asking a question for which there is no scripted response or logical response. She's gotten busted on that before (like have you ever lied to the American people or something). Too much risk involved trying to explain #whichhillary? said what, when and why. Reminds me of the movie Sybil.

#whichhillary? - all of them. They're all phonies but you just might get a glimpse of the real one at a press conference.