Republican presidential nominee Carly Fiorina acknowledged that as she moves up in the polls, media outlets will up their attacks on her.
Fiorina feels the attacks will continue because she is conservative, she said on Fox News Monday night.
“There are a lot of liberals who find me kind of scary right now, because I am doing really well in the polls and – horror of horrors – I am a conservative woman,” Fiorina said, referring to a recent attack by MSNBC against her for allegedly mismanaging money and failing to pay vendors for their work on her 2010 California Senate campaign.
The former Hewlett-Packard CEO explained that those debts were paid, and then called out the media for failing to make a story out of Hillary Clinton’s campaign debt, which she held for over four years that was roughly 40 times the size of Fiorina’s.
Meanwhile, Fiorina continues to rise in the polls. In an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Monday, Fiorina led Clinton 52 percent to 38 percent in a hypothetical general election matchup.
“We know that most of the media is very liberal, and we know that liberal women have trouble accepting that there are many, many women who don’t agree with them,” Fiorina said. “I think that I am distinctly horrifying to liberals that I am a conservative who right now, head-to-head, beats Hillary Clinton soundly.”
