![]() The electoral math just isn’t there, no matter how much the new investigation may sink Clinton in the polls in the coming days.īut the new FBI investigation could cost Clinton something just as important as an election victory: a mandate to govern. ![]() ![]() Donald Trump is too scandal-ridden and quixotic to win at this stage. To be clear, it’s unlikely the new FBI investigation will cost Clinton the election. Some 52 percent of those respondents said they were concerned the secretary’s sloppiness exposed sensitive information to hackers, a fear that the WikiLeaks disclosures have effectively confirmed. Her email debacle has been more of a stain on her public image than any controversy over Benghazi or the Clinton Foundation: According to a mid-September Reuters/Ipsos poll, nearly half of American adults (47 percent) were “very concerned” about Clinton’s email issues. The return of Clinton’s private email server to the national spotlight in the days before the election will only exacerbate her unfavorability rating. Americans still tend to prefer Clinton to Trump, but it’s apparently a choice for many between the lesser of two evils. Among registered voters, Clinton has a 59 percent unfavorability rating, almost as high as Trump’s 60 percent, according to a recent Washington Post/ABC poll a whopping 62 percent of respondents said that Clinton was far from “honest and trustworthy,” just below Trump’s 64 percent. While the new FBI investigation probably won’t uncover any nefarious plot by Clinton to deceive the American public, it certainly won’t help a Democratic candidate already suffering from historic unfavorability ratings among voters. The new FBI investigation could cost Clinton something just as important as an election victory: a mandate to govern. It’s worth noting that, in July, Comey testified before Congress that, while there was no evidence Clinton’s use of a private email server was “intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information,” the secretary of state was “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information”-a carelessness that’s reflected in the FBI’s 47-page report on Clinton’s electronic correspondences. The announcement comes as a major blow to a Clinton campaign already racked by email woes following days of disclosures by WikiLeaks (likely the “unrelated case” to which Comey is referring). “I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.” “In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation,” FBI director James Comey wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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