One day after her widely-lauded debate performance, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina emerged as a target of Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Appearing on “Morning Joe” on Friday, Wasserman Schultz took aim at Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, saying she was not “impressed” by her as a candidate, adding further that she would not be a formidable opponent for Hillary Clinton in a general election.
“No,” Wasserman Schultz told co-host Willie Geist when asked if she was impressed by Fiorina. “Not in the least.”
“Really?” Geist asked.
“What’s impressive about a woman who nearly drove a Fortune 500 company into the ground? Who fired 30,000 people when she was CEO?” Wasserman Schultz asked. “Whose stock dropped by 50 percent when she was the head of a company, and then recovered after she was fired by 10 percent? Who claims that the president, Barack Obama, is crushing small businesses? The president pushed through 18 different tax cuts for small businesses.”
“So it’s not surprising that someone who drove a company into the ground understands that crushing business — she crushed it herself,” Wasserman Schultz said, which was met by objections from co-host Joe Scarborough.
“You say she crushed it herself. It was in the middle of the dot com bust. I think it’s safe to say a lot of tech companies …” Scarborough said as the DNC chair interjected.
“She got fired. Obviously, her board of directors didn’t think she was doing a very good job,” Wasserman Schultz shot back.
“So you don’t think she’d be a formidable opponent to Hillary Clinton?” Geist replied.
“I think if you look at her track record when it comes to running a business — you couldn’t even run a Fortune 500 company, and now she wants to be president of the United States?” Wasserman Schultz said. “No, not impressed.”
“You know who else got fired?” Scarborough asked the Florida congresswoman. “Steve Jobs got fired.”
“He didn’t nearly run a company into the ground,” she responded, to which Scarborough pointed out that Jobs actually got fired twice.
Wasserman Schultz’s repeated attacks come on the heels of the DNC response to Fiorina’s debate performance in the “happy hour” debate Thursday evening. During her time on stage, Fiorina called out Donald Trump for talking to former President Bill Clinton prior to launching his campaign, while saying that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lied on Benghazi, her emails and her server, which she made known to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews afterwards.
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“Here’s Carly Fiorina’s record on negotiations — she negotiated a merger with Compaq where 30,000 HP employees lost their jobs. Then she negotiated a $40 million golden parachute after she was fired,” DNC Spokesperson Christina Freundlich said after the debate. “Here’s Carly Fiorina’s policy record: an affinity for sending American jobs overseas.”
