Just one day after Secretary Hillary Clinton’s lengthy testimony to the Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks, the vast majority of supporters we spoke with at Clinton’s rally in Alexandria, Virginia, could not identify a picture of Ambassador Christopher Stevens–and didn’t know who he was at all, after we told them his name.
Protesters showed up to the rally with a large picture of Stevens. Red Alert was covering the event, when we started hearing people ask, “Who is the guy in the picture?”
When we noticed the trend, we started asking the crowd, “Who is the guy in the picture?” Here are some of the answers from our running audio recording:
“I know… it’s… uh…”
“Who the guy??”
“I have no idea who that is.”
“I don’t even know who that is–does anybody know who that is?”
“The Benghazi guy, I could be wrong.”
“I didn’t know who that was–I don’t know if [the protestors] are making their point…”
“It’s what we all fight for: freedom!” (obviously no clue what the picture was)
After finding out who it was, one Hillary supporter remarked “that’s in bad taste,” she continued, “that like showing a victim of 9/11 at a political event.”
Of course, Ambassador Stevens was killed on September 11–just not September 11, 2001.
Another supporter remarked, “at least [the protestors] don’t have a gun–like open carry.”
Many of the supporters we spoke with at the rally thought Hillary came out stronger after the hearing. One volunteer commenting, “I saw people donating to her because of how well she did.”
Overall, the hearings seemed to have solidified the support of her base–but it obviously didn’t educate them on what happened.
