Carly Fiorina made it clear during an interview with CNBC Wednesday that she is targeting the GOP front-runner as the pair take to the debate stage Wednesday in Simi Valley, Calif.
“Well, I think Mr. Trump’s going to be hearing quite a lot from me,” Fiorina told CNBC’s John Harwood.
The former Hewlett-Packard CEO, who sits fifth in the Washington Examiner’s latest power rankings, went on to poke at Trump’s business career while pitting her record against his.
“Donald Trump and I are in totally different businesses. He’s in the entertainment business and he’s also in a privately held business,” Fiorina said. “In the business I was in, we had to report our results publicly, as you well know, in excruciating detail, quarter after quarter after quarter.”
“[I]f I misrepresented those results or those projections I could be held criminally liable. If I had done it, I could have gone to jail. Those are his standards,” Fiorina said about Trump. “I think my standards are what the American people would appreciate politicians or people running for office being held to.”
“If you file for bankruptcy four times, I think it suggests either lack of judgment or lack of discipline,” she added.
The 2016 hopeful also dismissed the idea that being a non-politician is a disqualifying factor, arguing that politicians haven’t done a terribly good job in leadership.
Fiorina is currently tied for seventh place with Sen. Rand Paul in the latest RealClearPolitics national polling average at 3.3 percent.
