Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is officially running for president, and she’s quite explicitly framing herself as the Hillary Clinton antidote.
Hillary Clinton “clearly is not trustworthy,” Fiorina told ABC Host George Stephanopoulos on Monday. “She peddled a fiction about [Benghazi, Libya] for a month, she hasn’t been transparent about her server and her emails and now we see now all of these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative.”
Prior to her criticism of Clinton, Fiorina called the former secretary of state “intelligent” and “hard working.”
At least part of Fiorina’s appeal is her ability and willingness to combat the Left’s “war on women” narrative — in particular her ability to counteract Clinton’s strategy of collecting votes just for being a woman.
Now, Fiorina does face a lot of hurdles in her bid for the presidency. Her legacy as a tech executive was not all positive, and her failed Senate bid in 2010 left America with one of the creepiest campaign ads of all time. Still, her stated positions could attract more people to the Republican Party, particularly her nuanced positions on same-sex marriage and immigration.
