Inside Clinton's Benghazi hearing game plan

The Democratic front-runner has a war room, surrogates primed with talking points, and a plan to spotlight her foreign policy bona fides.

Her surrogates have been equipped with talking points blasting the Benghazi Committee as a “partisan charade.”
Her main defender David Brock is expected to give a “pre-buttal” speech Wednesday, laying out a detailed case against the committee that essentially turns the tables and puts its members on trial. At Correct The Record, a PAC that coordinates with Hillary Clinton's campaign, a war room of about 30 staffers will be on hand to defend Clinton and attack the committee as she heads to Capitol Hill Thursday to testify in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi. And the outside super PAC supporting her campaign, Priorities USA, will be airing its first television commercials of the cycle in the two days leading up to the hearing, and has also conducted its first polls on attitudes toward the Republican-led panel.


While Clinton is expected to take the high road at the hearing, her surrogates have been armed with talking points blasting the Republicans “willing to sink to exploit the deaths of four brave Americans in order to attack Hillary Clinton,” according to a copy of the talking points obtained by POLITICO.
Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign and donors appeared to be lowering expectations ahead of the crucial moment. On NBC Monday, communications director Jennifer Palmieri said “the debate was a bigger moment” for the campaign than the hearing will be. “[Clinton] is looking forward to Thursday. She wants to answer all the questions and move on,” she said.


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