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Email Scandal: The FBI Exonerated Clinton, But The Public Hasn't
Recent polls show that Hillary Clinton's support has declined after the FBI decided that charges should not be brought against Clinton for her reckless use of a private email server while secretary of state. (AP)
7/14/2016
If Hillary Clinton and her supporters figured that the email scandal had finally been put to rest when the FBI recommended that no charges be filed, they got several bits of unwelcome news this week. Not least of which is a new poll showing Hillary's support sagging in the wake of the FBI's decision.
The latest New York Times/CBS poll, released on Thursday, finds that the share of people who think Clinton is not honest and trustworthy jumped 5 percentage points in the wake of the FBI's findings that she'd been "extremely careless" in her handling of highly confidential information while secretary of state.
The poll found that Trump and Clinton were tied at 40% each, with Clinton dropping 3 points while Trump gained 3 over the past month.
This isn't an outlier. Clinton's average support in all the polls taken since the FBI decision is just 40.8%. She averaged 44.9% in polls taken the month before, according to polling data from Real Clear Politics. The latest IBD/TIPP poll, conducted before the FBI's decision, showed Clinton over Trump 44-40%.
Meanwhile, state polling by Quinnipiac shows Clinton now trailing Trump in key battleground states of Florida and Pennsylvania. (Clinton had led in both the month before). Two new polls show Clinton and Trump tied in Ohio.
How much of this is the result of the email scandal? Potentially a lot of it. A Washington Post/ABC News poll that found 56% disapproved of FBI Director James Comey's recommendation that no charges be brought against Clinton. Only 35% approved. Even among Democrats, nearly a third thought Comey was wrong.
That poll also found that 57% said the email issue made them "worry about how Clinton might handle her responsibilities if she's elected president."
And the email story itself isn't over. The State Department announced that it will release emails that Clinton had failed to turn over, despite her repeated claims that she turned over all her work emails. Given the troubling facts uncovered in the email that Clinton didn't try to hide, one can only imagine what's in the ones she tried to bury.
Clinton's legal troubles might not be over, either. As CNN's Jake Tapper notes, Clinton could find herself in trouble for lying to Congress when she testified last October that "there was nothing marked classified on my emails."
When asked at a House hearing about that statement, Comey said simply: "That's not true."
We have argued in this space that the issue isn't whether Clinton broke the law (which she clearly did), but what her use of a private email server said about her fitness to serve in the White House. Our view is and has been that her unbelievably reckless handling of national security secrets, and her constant lying about it, disqualified her from the presidency.
These latest poll findings show that this view might finally -- and thankfully -- be catching on with the public at large.
READ MORE: http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/email-scandal-the-fbi-exonerated-clinton-but-public-hasnt/
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We have argued in this space that the issue isn't whether Clinton broke the law (which she clearly did), but what her use of a private email server said about her fitness to serve in the White House. Our view is and has been that her unbelievably reckless handling of national security secrets, and her constant lying about it, disqualified her from the presidency.
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