Hillary Clinton Research Paper

As such, Hillary losing the election is not necessarily a result of America’s distaste for her, but rather America’s refusal to move forward as a nation. To the uneducated or older part of white America, the concept that immigrants and LGBTQ+ individuals should be considered equal to them under the law is too novel of an idea to risk a Clinton presidency, regardless of her experience in the field. The idea that women should have sole right to their bodies is too ridiculous of a concept that this specific demographic chose to vote for an inexperienced and volatile individual rather than risk voting for a woman who had dedicated her entire life to politics and the betterment of our nation.
However, if one chooses to analyze the extrinsic factors surrounding Clinton’s defeat (public’s view of her authenticity, sexism, xenophobia), it is only fair to consider the intrinsic factors that may have contributed to her landslide loss to Trump. Did her actions in the Benghazi scandal and the email fiasco truly destroy her public image and make her lose all credibility in the eyes of the American people?
Conservatives use the Benghazi scandal as one of their main weapons against Clinton. A wrongful death lawsuit brought to Clinton by the parents of a deceased Benghazi victim states the following:
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“Nine different investigations into this attack” have occurred “and none found any evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing on the part of Hillary Clinton” (Sherman). Clinton’s innocence has been corroborated by at least nine investigation, yet she faces backlash for the Benghazi scandal even now. Because of the repeated referral to the Benghazi scandal by conservatives, it is not baseless to argue that conservatives were using it as an attack against Hillary to destroy her public image, rather than pursuing it out of a genuine sense of