Carly Fiorina refused to list names Monday when asked who she would want in her Cabinet as president, choosing instead to describe the one trait her appointments would each possess.
“I don’t have a short list, but I am compiling a long list [AND] rather than names, let me tell you the kind of person I’m looking for,” the Republican hopeful told Boston Herald Radio.
“I am looking for people who are not afraid to go in and actually challenge the status quo,” Fiorina said. “I’m looking for leaders. They may be from politics, they may be from the private sector. What I’m not looking for is people who want the title, people who want to go to the Washington cocktail parties, people who want to put it on their resumes.”
She continued, “I want people who are going to dig in and fight the status quo.”
Fiorina did, however, weigh in on two individuals when pressed by host John Sapochetti. The rising GOP candidate said Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, both Republicans, were worthy of consideration.
“I was just at Scott and Gail Brown’s home,” she told Sapochetti. “They hosted a wonderful house party in their backyard for me … and it was wonderful to be with them both.”
The former Hewlett-Packard CEO, who’s second in the latest Washington Examiner presidential power rankings, has repeatedly attributed her swell of support to her status as a Washington outsider. Recently, she’s defended her tenure at HP against increased scrutiny, saying her actions at the tech company prove she’s the same kind of firebrand she’d want in her Cabinet.
“The reason we have festering problems in Washington that have been around under Democrats and Republicans forever, the reason a majority of Americans have lost faith in their political process and their government, is because nobody ever challenges the status quo – they just stop right within it,” Fiorina said Monday.
