Clinton campaign chief: Voters aren’t ‘thinking about email servers’

Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager says California voters don’t care about the controversy over the Democratic presidential front-runner’s use of a private email server.

“I don’t think those primary voters in California who have those ballots sitting on their kitchen tables are thinking about email servers right now,” Robby Mook said on MSNBC on Tuesday.

{mosads}“It’s important that we get to the issues that really matter in this contest: how we get this economy working for everybody again, how we get wages rising, how we make sure that every child gets an outstanding education.”

A State Department inspector general’s report released last week said Clinton broke department rules when she set up a private email server during her time as secretary of State. It said Clinton never requested permission to use her personal server, and that it “would not” have been approved, in part, because of “the security risks in doing so.”

Mook said Tuesday it was “clear” from the report that “the rules were very unclear.”

“We know Secretary Powell also used a personal email account. We know that aides to Secretary Rice did the same,” Mook said.

“But Hillary has said with all the information she has now, she acknowledges that this was a mistake, she should have done this differently.”