Elections 2016: Carly Fiorina May Run for Presidential GOP Candidate
Former Republican California gubernatorial candidate Carly Fiorina said over the weekend it is very likely she will run for president on the GOP ticket. If the former Hewlett-Packard CEO runs, she could be the Republican answer to Hillary Clinton.
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Fiorina said she is "higher than 90 percent" likely to run in the upcoming presidential race, according to the Washington Post. She ran in 2010 for California's U.S. Senate seat, and now she says she will use her economic expertise gained in corporate America to continue improving the economy. She will announce her decision in April or May.
Fiorina argued she will appeal to voters thanks to her "deep understanding of how the economy actually works, having started as a secretary and become the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world."
Touting similar Republican talking points as other potential candidates, Fiorina blames the government for "crushing small businesses now." She adds that it has "tangled people up from a web of dependence from which they can't escape."
However, she echoed more anti-establishment rhetoric by calling on more support for community banks, which are foundering as corporate banks grow.
"If we want mainstream and the middle class going and growing again, we've got to get small and family-owned businesses going and growing again," she said.
However, the former CEO is also proud of her position and how well she did her job. According to Bloomberg, she also told the Fox News show she had increased HP's revenue during her tenure.
"We took Hewlett-Packard from about $44 billion to $88 billion in six years. We quadrupled cash flow," Fiorina said on "Fox News Sunday." "We went from a market laggard to a market leader in every product category and every market segment."
Taking aim at potential Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, Fiorina commented on the recent email debacle engulfing the former Secretary of State.
"There's a competence issue now. Anyone in 2015 who says you can't have two email accounts on a single device obviously doesn't understand technology," she said.
Fiorina fashions herself, in a way, as the anti-Clinton and courts female conservative voters, according to Time.
Back in February, Fiorina took a swipe at Clinton during CPAC, asking her, "Mrs. Clinton, name an accomplishment."
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