Najgore je prosla tadasnji Sekretar Drzave Hillary Clinton koja se nada uspjesno kandidirati za slijedeceg Demokratskog predsjednickog kandidata a izgubila je rejting radi losih poteza prilikom te krize: " Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains the 2016 presidential candidate to beat, but her handling of the Benghazi, Libya assassination of the U. S. ambassador, panned by the public, has significantly knocked her approval ratings down from an all-time high of just three months ago, according to a new poll. "