John Heilemann: WikiLeaks Is Too ‘Inside Baseball’ to Hurt Clinton

Scott Whitlock | October 27, 2016
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Bloomberg Politics editor John Heilemann appeared on CBS This Morning, Thursday, to declare the evolving WikiLeaks too “inside baseball” to really harm Hillary Clinton. The journalist, who also co-hosts The Circus on Showtime, inadvertently admitted that reporters were influencing the election because in most of the country all Americans “hear is the national news about how terrible Donald Trump is.” The WikiLeaks revelations now include details about how the Clinton Foundation mixed with Bill Clinton’s paid speeches. CBS co-host Charlie Rose wondered if this is having an “impact.” Heilemann dismissed, “If you looked at just the polling... the answer to that question is no in the sense that I think a lot of voters all of this stuff feels like inside baseball to them and not stuff that affects the real lives of real people.”

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