Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina says she thinks her status as a conservative woman who tops Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton head-to-head in recent polls makes her “distinctly horrifying” to liberals.
“There are a lot of liberals who find me kind of scary right now because I am doing really well in the polls and, horror of horrors, I am a conservative woman,” Mrs. Fiorina said Monday evening on Fox News’ “The Kelly File.” “We know that most of the media is very liberal, and we know that liberal women have trouble accepting that there are many, many women who don’t agree with them.”
“Note to Democrat party: We’re half the nation,” she said. “And so our views differ just like men’s views differ and, yes, I think I am distinctly horrifying to liberals that I am a conservative woman who right now, head to head, beats Hillary Clinton soundly.”
Two NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls released this week showed Mrs. Fiorina leading Mrs. Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire by 14 points and 8 points, respectively.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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