there, and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses, for chelsea s education. reporter: houses, plural. clinton s opponents jumped on that. shamelessly out of touch, the rnc declared. america rising, the leading anti-hillary superpac tweeted pictures of the multimillion dollar home and hamptons vacation rental, republicans trying to use clinton s two houses against her the way democrats used john mccain s seven houses against him. when asked how many houses he owns, mccain lost track. reporter: not to mention errant comments made by mitt romney. rick, i ll tell you what. 10,000 bucks? $10,000 bet? ann drives a couple of cadillacs actually. reporter: it s not the first time clinton has reminded americans she s not exactly like them. last time i actually drove a car, myself, was 1996. reporter: 55% of americans believe clinton understands their problems. according to a new abc
hillary clinton in an interview with abc news found herself in the awkward position of defending her wealth. we came out of the white house not only dead broke but in debt. we had no money when we got there and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for chelsea s education. reporter: houses, plural. clinton s opponents jumped on that shamelessly out of touch the rnc declared. america rising, the anti-leading super pac tweeted pictures of their multimillion dollar homes and vacation rental, trying to use two houses against her the way democrats used john mccain s seven houses against him. when asked how many houses he owns, mccain lost track. reporter: not to mention, comments made in error by mitt romney. i ll tell you what, $10,000? ann drives a couple of cadillacs, actually.
california and build an 11,000 square foot beach house in its place. in addition to his california house, he owns a townhouse outside of boston and $10 million vacation home in new jersey. why should we care? i do not believe just because a person is wealthy they can t or won t provide leadership in tough economic times. after all look at fdr who led the country out of the great depression. but mitt romney is no franklin d. roosevelt. his policy positions reflect his belief that corporations are people and the wealth of the top 1% should be protected at the expense of everyone else. before romney cuts another ad portraying himself as the hero of the downtroddenen and working place, he should have an ad that can be recycled this time around. when asked how many houses he owns, mccain lost track. he couldn t remember. well, it s seven. seven houses, and here s one