Glenn Beck Accuses Carly Fiorina Of Believing In Climate Change, Fiorina Says ‘No’, Carly Fiorina entered the Republican presidential chase with a atypical purpose: Attack Hillary Clinton.
At the high-profile Bourgeois Political Action Appointment in February, Fiorina ripped into Clinton, arduous her to "name one accomplishment" and charging that she "doesn't apperceive what administration means." She trolled Clinton with a account appointment just alfresco a Clinton accident in Columbia. And she launched an absolute website, ReadytoBeatHillary.com, that funneled visitors to a donation page -- already they watched a 54-second anti-Clinton screed.
But that was afore her able agitation performances and accelerated acceleration to the top-tier of Republican primary candidates. Now, Fiorina is now focused on cogent her story. On the trail, she delivers a persona-heavy, policy-light mix of her claimed acceleration in the business apple and a abstract yield on who is declared to serve in government.
Gone is the ablaze anti-Clinton address that already authentic her candidacy. Now that she stands added of a adventitious of adverse Clinton, she's aggravating to move above her.
"With a acceleration in the acclamation comes a acceleration in responsibility," said Ron Christie, a Republican architect who organized CPAC and counts himself as a longtime Fiorina-watcher. "It is a apparent change and a abandonment from her aboriginal action to authorize herself as the anti-Hillary applicant as to now aggravating to position herself as: 'I can win this thing.'"
Needs to accent her own record
Republican donors and activists accept encouraged Fiorina's uppercuts as acceptable for the bourgeois cause, acquisitive to see a applicant so committed to damaging a acceptable Democratic applicant who a lot of apprehend to be appalling in the accepted election. But few top Republican assembly accept committed to Fiorina exclusively.
Despite her able poll showings of late, abounding voters still don't apperceive abundant about the above Hewlett-Packard arch executive. About one-third of GOP voters said in the latest CNN/ORC poll that they had no assessment of Fiorina.
After audition Fiorina at a Republican women's bologna here, some South Carolina Republicans said they capital Fiorina to ascertain herself afore allurement them to anticipate her in a accepted acclamation debate.
"I've heard some of those comments too and you affectionate of smile about those, but that's not absolutely what I'm absorbed in," said Robin Duffie, applauding Fiorina for speaking about action issues. "That is added presidential."
Fiorina's bass down address suggests she's acquainted of her new continuing in the race. In a contempo account with People Magazine, Fiorina said she empathized with Clinton's plan ethic: "She's smart, she's hardworking, she's giving it all she's got."
Not that Fiorina is abandoning Clinton entirely. At business lunches and grassroots rallies akin beyond South Carolina endure week, Fiorina fabricated alone casual mentions of Clinton, bound badinage about her email aspersion in a commonplace way that seemed even antiquated on the Republican stump.
And Fiorina still pokes at Clinton if asked, cogent reporters alfresco a abundance centermost afresh that she is a "liar" on issues like the 2012 bang on Benghazi and the videos that accept alike abrogating Planned Parenthood. And she pushed aback on the abstraction that she's no best arch the GOP attacks adjoin the above secretary of state.
"In adjustment to become admiral of the United States, I accept to exhausted the Democrat. She happens to be the Democrat," Fiorina told reporters if CNN asked if she was abetment abroad from her antecedent language. "She represents a set of behavior that are bad for this nation."
Attacking Trump
Her new foil? The aforementioned as abounding added Republicans: Donald Trump. Fiorina, who squabbled with the bouncy frontrunner in the additional debate, tells crowds that the hardliner didn't burn the presidential altercation over bound security, and that candidates shouldn't be authentic by the "size of your helicopter" or the "size of your ego."
But for now, she sounds about identical to every added Republican.
"We charge a admiral in the Oval Office who in fact understands how the abridgement works," she told a well-dressed army actuality as forks clinked. "We accept managed the abatement of this abundant nation for absolutely continued enough, acknowledge you actual much."
That boilerplate is abundant gentler than the critiques she dished if she bare to rake Clinton over the dress-down to win attention. In the pre-campaign season, Fiorina relished in uncorking the a lot of baneful broadsides of Republican contenders, authoritative "Unlike Hillary Clinton" one of her admired phrases as she arrive Clinton's columnist band to the account conferences Fiorina staged accomplish abroad from Clinton's contest -- allegedly unintentionally.
At CPAC in February, Fiorina accomplished her crosshairs with affluence of intention.
"She tweets about women's rights in this country and takes money from governments that abjure women the a lot of basal animal rights. She tweets about according pay for women but will not acknowledgment basal questions about her own offices' pay standards," Fiorina said in one baking passage. "Hillary may like hashtags. But she doesn't apperceive what administration means."
Fans of Fiorina actuality bidding little anxious for that crusading Carly of the past. Sherri James said she too would abound bound affronted with an on-the-attack Fiorina. "I just don't wish to apprehend that they're traveling aback and forth," James said, adage she'd achievement all the Republicans wouldn't aim at anniversary other.
One ambition is absolved from that rule: Trump.
"I'm accept with that," she said with a laugh.
At the high-profile Bourgeois Political Action Appointment in February, Fiorina ripped into Clinton, arduous her to "name one accomplishment" and charging that she "doesn't apperceive what administration means." She trolled Clinton with a account appointment just alfresco a Clinton accident in Columbia. And she launched an absolute website, ReadytoBeatHillary.com, that funneled visitors to a donation page -- already they watched a 54-second anti-Clinton screed.
But that was afore her able agitation performances and accelerated acceleration to the top-tier of Republican primary candidates. Now, Fiorina is now focused on cogent her story. On the trail, she delivers a persona-heavy, policy-light mix of her claimed acceleration in the business apple and a abstract yield on who is declared to serve in government.
Gone is the ablaze anti-Clinton address that already authentic her candidacy. Now that she stands added of a adventitious of adverse Clinton, she's aggravating to move above her.
"With a acceleration in the acclamation comes a acceleration in responsibility," said Ron Christie, a Republican architect who organized CPAC and counts himself as a longtime Fiorina-watcher. "It is a apparent change and a abandonment from her aboriginal action to authorize herself as the anti-Hillary applicant as to now aggravating to position herself as: 'I can win this thing.'"
Needs to accent her own record
Republican donors and activists accept encouraged Fiorina's uppercuts as acceptable for the bourgeois cause, acquisitive to see a applicant so committed to damaging a acceptable Democratic applicant who a lot of apprehend to be appalling in the accepted election. But few top Republican assembly accept committed to Fiorina exclusively.
Despite her able poll showings of late, abounding voters still don't apperceive abundant about the above Hewlett-Packard arch executive. About one-third of GOP voters said in the latest CNN/ORC poll that they had no assessment of Fiorina.
After audition Fiorina at a Republican women's bologna here, some South Carolina Republicans said they capital Fiorina to ascertain herself afore allurement them to anticipate her in a accepted acclamation debate.
"I've heard some of those comments too and you affectionate of smile about those, but that's not absolutely what I'm absorbed in," said Robin Duffie, applauding Fiorina for speaking about action issues. "That is added presidential."
Fiorina's bass down address suggests she's acquainted of her new continuing in the race. In a contempo account with People Magazine, Fiorina said she empathized with Clinton's plan ethic: "She's smart, she's hardworking, she's giving it all she's got."
Not that Fiorina is abandoning Clinton entirely. At business lunches and grassroots rallies akin beyond South Carolina endure week, Fiorina fabricated alone casual mentions of Clinton, bound badinage about her email aspersion in a commonplace way that seemed even antiquated on the Republican stump.
And Fiorina still pokes at Clinton if asked, cogent reporters alfresco a abundance centermost afresh that she is a "liar" on issues like the 2012 bang on Benghazi and the videos that accept alike abrogating Planned Parenthood. And she pushed aback on the abstraction that she's no best arch the GOP attacks adjoin the above secretary of state.
"In adjustment to become admiral of the United States, I accept to exhausted the Democrat. She happens to be the Democrat," Fiorina told reporters if CNN asked if she was abetment abroad from her antecedent language. "She represents a set of behavior that are bad for this nation."
Attacking Trump
Her new foil? The aforementioned as abounding added Republicans: Donald Trump. Fiorina, who squabbled with the bouncy frontrunner in the additional debate, tells crowds that the hardliner didn't burn the presidential altercation over bound security, and that candidates shouldn't be authentic by the "size of your helicopter" or the "size of your ego."
But for now, she sounds about identical to every added Republican.
"We charge a admiral in the Oval Office who in fact understands how the abridgement works," she told a well-dressed army actuality as forks clinked. "We accept managed the abatement of this abundant nation for absolutely continued enough, acknowledge you actual much."
That boilerplate is abundant gentler than the critiques she dished if she bare to rake Clinton over the dress-down to win attention. In the pre-campaign season, Fiorina relished in uncorking the a lot of baneful broadsides of Republican contenders, authoritative "Unlike Hillary Clinton" one of her admired phrases as she arrive Clinton's columnist band to the account conferences Fiorina staged accomplish abroad from Clinton's contest -- allegedly unintentionally.
At CPAC in February, Fiorina accomplished her crosshairs with affluence of intention.
"She tweets about women's rights in this country and takes money from governments that abjure women the a lot of basal animal rights. She tweets about according pay for women but will not acknowledgment basal questions about her own offices' pay standards," Fiorina said in one baking passage. "Hillary may like hashtags. But she doesn't apperceive what administration means."
Fans of Fiorina actuality bidding little anxious for that crusading Carly of the past. Sherri James said she too would abound bound affronted with an on-the-attack Fiorina. "I just don't wish to apprehend that they're traveling aback and forth," James said, adage she'd achievement all the Republicans wouldn't aim at anniversary other.
One ambition is absolved from that rule: Trump.
"I'm accept with that," she said with a laugh.
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