Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina will join ABC’s “The View” this Friday to respond to the women who, just recently, attacked her physical appearance on air.
“I will face the ladies of ‘The View’ for the second time on Friday. I’m looking forward to it,” the former business executive told Fox News Monday.
Last week, the women hosting the program mocked what Fiorina identified as her weakness during the third Republican debate.
“She kicked off her thing saying, ‘You know people told me I didn’t smile enough during the last debate.’ She looked demented. I mean, her mouth did not downturn one time,” host Michelle Collins told her co-hosts last Thursday.
Fiorina will return to the weekday morning program not to seek an apology, she says, but to confront a situation that’s become all too familiar since she ran for California’s Senate seat in 2010 and launched her presidential bid.
“You know, my candidacy has been called offensive to women, by women. I’ve been told that I hate women because I’m pro-life, by women. This is, unfortunately, what liberals do all too often,” Fiorina said.
She continued, “So my message to the ladies of ‘The View’ is man up. If you want to debate me on policies … if you don’t like those facts, man up and debate me on them. But don’t sink to talking about my face.”
“You run into this headlong,” Fiorina said, before noting that “none of these liberal women scare me.”
“What this points out is that liberals, and that includes liberal women, when they don’t like the message, they attack the messenger,” she added.
