Although O'Malley found Hillary "to be forthright and honest," says email flap is a 'distraction'
...the former Maryland governor said the distinctions on important issues between him and Hillary Clinton, as well as the other candidates, are being drowned out by the continuing Clinton email issue and are being muted by the sparse number of debates scheduled by the Democratic National Committee.
Martin O’Malley declined to speculate why Clinton on Wednesday suddenly changed her tone regarding her use of emails, and admitted she should have used separate accounts for personal and official matters. But he said the issue is a distraction.
“Until we start having debates, our party is going to be defined and branded by questions like, ‘What did Secretary Clinton know, when did she know it and when will the FBI conclude its investigation?’
“That’s not a formula for success in the fall,” O’Malley said. “The formula for success in the fall is to speak to the issues that matter most around people’s kitchen tables and the concerns they have for their own kids and their future.”
He said it is important for leaders “to be open and transparent in all of their dealings,” and, he said, Clinton, whom he supported in 2008, “has never said anything to me that I could not rely on, and in all her dealings with me I found her to be forthright and honest.”
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