On her second day as a GOP presidential candidate, Carly Fiorina, with husband Frank, took a break from policy to tell of how the duo were hooked on each other from the start.
On the NBC’s Today show’s Fourth Hour, hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, Fiorina said their third date got steam after he suggested that she would eventually become a corporate executive, maybe running AT&T one day, long before she took control of Hewlett-Packard.
“First of all, he was just cute beyond belief,” said Fiorina, sitting beside her husband. One of the co-hosts off camera interjected, “he’s a stud muffin,” and the candidate responded, “Thank you, exactly, he is.”
At the time they worked for AT&T. She said, “When you are a young woman trying to make it in in a man’s world, it’s such a relief to be taken seriously by someone, particularly someone who’s kinda really cute and you like.”
Asked about that third date, she added, “I remember looking out the car windows and not being able to see anything.”
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The two were married in 1985.
Asked what she wants voters to know about her, Fiorina said, “I understand how the economy works, I understand how the world works and who’s in it, I know most of the world leaders on the stage today, I understand bureaucracies and technology and executive decision making and all those things I think qualify me. And I do think that Americans are tired of the professional political class.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
