Hillary Clinton’s performance as Secretary of State during the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya has left many wondering if she is unfit to be president of the United States.
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Sean Smith, a foreign service information management officer, was killed along with U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and two Central Intelligence Agency contractors in the 2012 attack on the USA diplomatic compound in Benghazi.
Usually, presidential candidates get a bounce in the polls from their own conventions, but if the day one debacle at the RNC convention is any indication, Hillary Clinton may get a boost in the polls from both the Republican and Democratic conventions. Members of the audience expressed disappointment that Trump chose to stay away and said Clinton appeared to be the candidate best suited to ending inequality.
“Since then, I have repeatedly asked Hillary Clinton to explain to me the real reason why my son is dead”, said smith.
This is the second time this month Clinton has met with a large group of teachers to discuss her public education priorities; her last visit was with the National Education Association where she delivered a thirty-minute speech elaborating on her education views. She rejected that justification, Clinton said. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani hit all the key GOP talking points in painting Hillary Clinton, paraphrasing here, as a conniving, devious, incompetent, lying hack who should be in jail.
Geist and Tiegen, the former Marines who fought in Benghazi, also focused on the lack of security – and blamed Clinton. She leads Trump, 43 percent to 37 percent, among people making less than $50,000 annually and by 10 percentage points among people who are unemployed, 44 percent to 34 percent.
In a 30-minute address, Geist and Tiegen said they defied a “stand down” order by a local Central Intelligence Agency station chief to try to rescue Stevens and others at the diplomatic outpost.
In Minneapolis, Clinton skipped a quick beat over the charter school question, saying “we are not going to go in the direction where we let outside people foist for-profit schools on our communities”. Still, we’ll be able to have more confidence in the polling after the conventions than we can at present.
USA military leaders told the House Benghazi committee they thought an evacuation was imminent, slowing any response. The attacks occurred in waves at two locations over 13 hours.
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But thanks to overwhelming support from Democrats in New York City, Clinton would easily win statewide with 47 percent to 35 percent for Trump, the Quinnipiac poll found.
