Carly Fiorina running for president

Carly Fiornia on Monday declared her bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, making her the fifth candidate and fourth Republican to make the race.

The former Hewlett Packard CEO, whose only other campaign experience is a failed 2010 Senate campaign in California (she won a Republican primary but lost to Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer), announced her intentions in a campaign video released over the Internet and during an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America. Fiorina, 60, is scheduled to hold a conference call with reporters at 10 a.m. EST.

“The only way to re-imagine our government is to re-imagine who is leading it,” Fiorina said in her launch video.

Now a resident of Northern Virginia, Fiorina becomes the second woman in the presidential race, joining presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state. Fiorina has been a sharp critic of Clinton, 67, and is expected to be a major asset for the Republican ticket, whether she is on it or not. Fiorina has downplayed her position as likely the only Republican woman running. But it is because she is a woman that she can deliver an unrestrained critique of Clinton that might be deemed politically risky for the GOP men in the race.

Indeed, Fiorina’s announcement video begins with a clip from Clinton’s announcement video, issued when she announced on April 12, and an attack on Clinton as a legacy candidate. Fiorina is not expected to compete for the GOP nomination but has impressed many who wondered why a businesswoman with limited political experience was running for president.

“Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class. They believed that citizens and leaders needed to step forward,” she said.