The significance of Hillary's planted question

It's tempting to dismiss the uproar over a planted question at a Hillary Clinton campaign event as a "phony" controversy, said John Dickerson in Slate.com. But exchanges between voters and the candidates are supposed to be the "antidote&#03

What happened

The Grinnell College student who said she asked a planted question at a forum with Hillary Clinton continued to fuel the controversy on Tuesday, saying that she overheard another person who claimed to have also been given a question to ask by Clinton’s staff. Clinton has said it was “news to me” that the campaign planted questions, and vowed to make sure it doesn’t happen again. (The Boston Globe, free registration)

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up