240 days and counting: Why Hillary won't do press conferences

[Commentary] 240 days. That’s how long it's been since Hillary Clinton last held this thing called a press conference. How long is 240 days? With the NFL preseason set to kick off this week, let's put it this way: You can play not one, but two NFL regular seasons back-to-back in that period of time. December 4, 2015. That was the date that the Democratic nominee last spoke to the embedded press corps that follows her every move and knows the campaign better than anyone.

So many interviews we've seen of Clinton during this campaign consist on one theme: Her always being asked to respond to something her opponent said or did. And when each interview is done, viewers watching at home walk away still having little idea what Clinton's campaign is actually about other the need to defeat Trump. But while going on Fox News and facing hard questions is noteworthy (Clinton has only done so three times since 2014), it's not a press conference... something the media seems to be letting her skate on despite not holding one in 2016.