Despite her low name recognition and unfamiliarity with voters, GOP candidate Carly Fiorina isn’t concerned about her electability or her lack of professional political experience going into Tuesday’s GOP debate.
“Let’s just remember that on May 4 when I launched my candidacy, I was 16 out of 16. The polling companies didn’t even ask voters about my name because less than 4 percent of them had heard of me,” Fiorina said during an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “Now I’m in 6th place on the main stage. I kind of like that trajectory and it’s a different trajectory, a faster trajectory than any other candidate out there particularly given the fact that I remain the least well-known candidate.”
The former Hewlett-Packard CEO has often been criticized on the campaign trail for her management tactics when she worked in business, but Fiorina has continually defended her record, stating that her business experience helps prep her for political office.
“The only way you go from a secretary to where I have come from in my life is you produce results and you solve problems and you lead and that’s what we need right now. Less talk, more results,” the GOP candidate, who is sixth in the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings, argued.
Leading into the fourth Republican debate on Tuesday night Fiorina stands at 3 percent, enough for her to stand on the stage during the prime-time debate along with Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Rand Paul.
When asked why the current CEO of HP doesn’t support her if she was so successful, Fiorina continued to defend her record. She also reminded viewers that Meg Whitman, the current CEO, is involved with Chris Christie’s campaign, “so it’s in her interest” to disparage Fiorina.
“Ours was intended to be a citizen government. We were never intended to have a professional political class,” Fiorina said while defending her professional record. “I was brought in to HP to save a company during a very difficult time. I’ve saved jobs, I’ve created jobs I know why jobs are destroyed and the truth is [the] vast majority of politicians don’t know that.”
