The former first minister was asked if she had become a liability to the SNP after she arrived at the party's conference in Aberdeen.
Nicola Sturgeon has said it was up to others to judge her record as SNP leader after the party suffered an electoral drubbing in Rutherglen.
It comes after the party suffered a heavy defeat to Labour in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election earlier this month. She was later questioned by detectives as part of the Operation Branchform investigation into SNP finances - an issue Yousaf said was repeatedly raised by voters in Rutherglen ahead of the by-election.
Asked why the party had lost so badly in Rutherglen, she added: "The SNP has been in government for the best part of 20 years. What the party is doing, what the party needs to do, is remind people why we have won so many elections in the past 20 years.
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