Presidential candidates don’t have much time to do anything but campaign. Their schedules are brutal and don’t include lazy days to binge watch a 10-hour documentary, even if said documentary has caught the attention of the entire nation.
Hillary Clinton is likely not the only candidate who hasn’t seen Netflix’s Making a Murderer and although voters should understand why she has not watched it, she still wasn’t willing to admit she hasn’t seen it and does not know details.
During a town hall rally in Iowa this week, a woman posed a question about the series to Clinton:
“Thank you for being here Madam Secretary, my question is over the holidays, a documentary came out called Making a Murderer. I don’t know if you are familiar with it, but it’s about a man and his nephew who are in prison for a murder even though there are serious questions about whether or not they were framed by local law enforcement. It raises a bigger question about our judicial system, where we seem to railroad poor people and uneducated people into prison, even when there are serious questions about their guilt or the denial of their constitutional rights. So I guess my question is what can we do to fix our broker judicial system in this country?”
And Clinton responded by further addressing the criminal justice system, an item that has become a key talking point at many campaign stops, but botched one key piece that made her answer borderline irrelevant to the Avery case:
“I think we do have a systemic problem in our criminal justice system. I believe we can get bipartisan support to address it. Because it is now very apparent we have a couple of big issues. One, it is true that there’s enough evidence to show that if you are an African-American man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated for doing the same thing as white man. There’s just a lot of evidence of that.
We’re guessing that all campaign managers and aides have now explained the details of the case to each of the remaining candidates.
