It’s the story the mainstream media doesn’t want you to see, says the super PAC backing Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina about its new documentary, “Citizen Carly.”
Fiorina’s principal outside support group, CARLY for America, announced this week that it has produced and will soon debut a short film chronicling the GOP candidate’s rise from secretary of a nine-person real estate firm to CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and the peaks and valleys between.
“This is the true and full story. Not through the lens of liberal reporters, but through the lens of the people who have known her for decades,” Steve DeMaura, executive director of the PAC, said in a recent statement.
“Citizens like Carly Fiorina have been guided by strong values and risen through great adversity,” he added. “We are confident that voters will find Carly’s experiences relatable and revealing of her depth of knowledge and character,” he added.
With her résumé including six years as CEO of a Fortune 500 company and an external advisory role to the Central Intelligence Agency, Fiorina, who holds the No. 7 spot in the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings, has positioned herself as a political outsider with enough the leadership experience and foreign policy expertise to be president.
As the only female presidential hopeful running against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, she has seized the opportunity to rebuke the former secretary of state on several occasions in the election cycle so far. And her favorability ratings among Republican voters have risen as a result.
A Quinnipiac poll released Friday shows Fiorina with a favorability rating of 62 percent among likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa. She is tied with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and led only by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 66 percent, and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, 79 percent.
Still, DeMaura says “only a small portion of the country knows who Carly is, and those who know something know very little.” He hopes that will change with the release of “Citizen Carly.”
Fiorina’s super PAC has scheduled several “exclusive premieres” of the documentary in key battleground states next week, including screenings in Des Moines, Iowa; Manchester, N.H.; Greenville, S.C.; and Northern Virginia. Individuals interested in attending can RSVP on the PAC’s website.
CNN announced Thursday evening that Fiorina, along with 10 of her GOP opponents, will take the stage in Simi Valley, Calif., on Sept. 16 for the second Republican primary debate.
