I don't approve of staging a question but getting a question asked while campaigning is not the same thing as staging a whole pretend press conference IMHO.

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But the source of the question was no coincidence—at this event “they wanted a question from a college student,” Gallo-Chasanoff said. She also noted that staffers prompted Clinton to call on her and another who had been approached before the event, although Clinton used her discretion to select questions and called on people who had not been prepped before hand. Some of the questions asked were confusing and clearly off-message.
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Besides the one question it sounds like everyone else's was random.

Fair play!