The share of Americans holding an unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton has more than doubled in four years.
A CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday indicates that 53 percent of U.S. adults currently see Clinton unfavorably, more than twice the 26 percent who looked negatively upon Clinton in September 2011.
Clinton’s favorable rating currently stands at 44 percent, having slumped nearly 10 percentage points since news broke of her exclusive use of a private email system while serving as secretary of state in the Obama administration.
In September 2011--one year before the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi—Clinton’s favorable rating towered at 69 percent.
The poll also revealed that Clinton’s support among Democratic voters for the party’s nomination has dipped below 50 percent for the first time. Meanwhile, her competitor Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) has surged 10 percentage points since last month.
Clinton was forced to turn her private server over to the Department of Justice last week after it was revealed by the inspector general of the intelligence community that no fewer than two of the messages held on her personal system contain "top secret" information.
Moreover, 305 of Clinton’s roughly 30,000 work-related emails have been flagged for possibly containing classified information. The former secretary of state has repeatedly insisted that she never sent or received classified information from her personal email account while at the State Department.
The FBI is pushing forward with its investigation into the security of Clinton’s email system.