--- title: Hillary Clinton Benghazi Probe Seen as Attack, Poll Says description: The poll comes the day before Clinton is set to testify canonical: https://time.com/4082088/hillary-clinton-benghazi-attack-gop-committee-poll/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-21T19:38:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:39:35.837Z article:section: Politics og:title: Most See GOP Benghazi Probe as Vehicle to Hurt Hillary Clinton, Poll Says og:description: The poll comes the day before Clinton is set to testify og:url: https://time.com/4082088/hillary-clinton-benghazi-attack-gop-committee-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33d4f3baff3ba547/6988695c2dce016aaa9e6220/hillary-clinton_002.jpg?branch=production&width=768&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 768 og:image:height: 432 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Most See GOP Benghazi Probe as Vehicle to Hurt Hillary Clinton, Poll Says twitter:description: The poll comes the day before Clinton is set to testify twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33d4f3baff3ba547/6988695c2dce016aaa9e6220/hillary-clinton_002.jpg?branch=production&width=768&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Most See GOP Benghazi Probe as Vehicle to Hurt Hillary Clinton, Poll Says > Sponsored content. 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Watch the top 10 moments from Hillary Clinton's career in politics._  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 21, 2015 7:38 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 21, 2015 7:38 PM UTC Most Americans see the Republican-led congressional committee charged with investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi as a partisan effort more geared toward bringing down Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton than gathering the facts, [according to a new poll](http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/68753a3b-8cec-45f8-9bda-fda072e1853f.pdf). The Benghazi Select Committee, formed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attack that killed four Americans, has in recent months turned its attention to Clinton’s controversial use of a private email server when she was Secretary of State. The Monmouth University national poll released Wednesday found that 52% of Americans believe the committee is more interested in going after Clinton than learning the facts, while just 32% believe it’s more interest in learning the facts. The poll comes a day before Clinton is scheduled to testify before the committee. In recent weeks, Democrats have escalated their attacks on the committee as a [partisan](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/opinion/disband-the-benghazi-committee.html) witch hunt, seizing on a controversial [statement](http://time.com/4055534/kevin-mccarthy-hillary-clinton-benghazi/) by Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who suggested it was set up to damage her poll numbers. More than anything, the poll seemed to support a statement from Clinton rival Bernie Sanders that Americans are “sick and tired of hearing about \[her\] damn emails.” In the poll, 59% agreed with that sentiment. The poll of 1,012 adults, conducted Oct. 15-18, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. ## Transcript You know, I'm not sittin' here some little woman standing here by my man like Tammy Wynette. I'm sittin' here because I love him, and I respect him. Now is our chance to beat the historical odds, and give the American people the health security they need. If there is one message that echoes forth from this. Let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right- wing conspiracy that has been conspiring. Against my husband since the day he announced for president. I would be happy to, when you give me the signed letters. Well, right here. Right here. When you give me. Right here. Sign it right now. We'll shake. We'll shake on this, Ray. No, no, I want your signature, cause I think that everybody wants to see you signing something that you said you were for. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country. I just don't wanna see us fall backwards. Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. The battle to stop Al Qaeda and its affiliates. Does not end with one death. What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. I took the unprecedented step of asking that the state department make all my work- related emails, [ MUSIC ] Public for everyone to see. 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