In that time, controversy has exploded over Clinton Foundation ties to the State Department. A steady drip of developments surrounding Clinton’s use of a private email server also persists, punctuated by Friday’s release by the FBI of documents pertaining to its investigation into her email set-up…

“It used to look like Clinton should just spend the fall at the International Space Station watching Trump implode, but it raises the question of whether you can disappear from the campaign trail without it having some effect,” said Marquette University pollster Charles Franklin, whose Wisconsin survey found Clinton’s favorability declining across every metric.

Clinton has gone days between events in some cases and hasn’t given a press conference in more than 270 days, a fact that Republicans have been eager to highlight…

“The only time she’s been in the headlines it’s been about the Clinton Foundation or the next round of emails or, God-forbid, the Anthony Weiner saga,” Franklin said. “She needs to get out a more positive message, like she had during the week of the convention. It shows that if you don’t steadily reinforce that, things can rapidly move against you.”