Cruz to tap Carly Fiorina as running mate

Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz has tapped former technology executive Carly Fiorina as his running mate in the race for the White House. The Texas senator plans to formally unveil his pick for vice president Wednesday afternoon in Indianapolis.
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Carly Fiorina endorses Ted Cruz

Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday in a surprise appearance in Miami. "I checked the box for Ted Cruz,” Fiorina said.
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Do Not Close The Book On Carly Fiorina

Scott Walker, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee and now Rand Paul.  All were considered to be serious candidates for the Republican nomination for president and all have dropped out.Carly Fiorina began the campaign with far less name recognition, far less money, and yet her national profile has grown and when she speaks people hang on every word.  She has far outlasted the so-called heavyweights, do not count her out.
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Fiorina: Clinton would 'wipe the floor' with Trump

     Carly Fiorina says Donald Trump has no chance in the general election against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
     “Look, Donald Trump is controversial [and] Donald Trump is entertaining,” Fiorina said of her rival for the GOP’s presidential, in an interview with "Glamour" published Tuesday.
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Fiorina: This Is a War We Must Wage and Win

Note: This post was adapted from a speech given by Carly Fiorina the day after the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Like all of you, I am heartsick and heartbroken at the carnage in Paris. I am filled with revulsion for the terrorists who carried out these brutal attacks and the murderous Islamist extremism that fuels their violent hatred.I am angry that, just hours before the Paris attacks began and against all the evidence, President Obama declared ISIS "contained" and took a victory lap.

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Fiorina: We caught Hillary Clinton red-handed on Benghazi

Carly Fiorina took direct aim at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton while on the campaign trail in Iowa, and said the Republican Party needs a tough presidential nominee ready to confront Clinton. --Despite sharing the stage at the Iowa Growth and Opportunity forum with more than a half dozen other Republican candidates, Fiorina focused on Clinton and her recent testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

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Carly Fiorina Fades, As Ted Cruz Climbs In The Chase

Carly Fiorina couldn't capitalize on her scrappy second debate performance while Sen. Ted Cruz looks to be assembling an organization for the long haul. --That's why they are trading places in the latest rankings of The Chase – U.S. News' snapshot of the 2016 presidential contenders and their shot at their party's nominations.

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It may be back to the ‘kiddie table’ for Fiorina, new poll shows candidate has seen major decline

It may be back to the ‘kiddie table’ for Fiorina, new poll shows candidate has seen major decline in support. Carly Fiorina could be headed back to the “kiddie table.” --The recently resurgent 2016 Republican candidate may have peaked, a slew of polls released Tuesday showed.

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After post-debate surge, Fiorina sees poll numbers slip

A month after CNN's Republican debate rocketed Carly Fiorina to the top tier of GOP contenders, her poll numbers are beginning to slip. Fiorina's polished debate performance -- her takedown of Donald Trump, fluency on foreign policy issues and passionate criticism of Planned Parenthood -- instantly elevated her in the eyes of Republican primary voters who have flocked to Washington outsiders this cycle.

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Carly Fiorina Says Degree In Medieval History Will Help Her Defeat Isis

For over three decades, Carly Fiorina's bachelor's degree from Stanford University in medieval history and philosophy has had little real-world application. --But as she mounts a presidential bid, the Republican candidate says her degree is finally of use as she considers how she would deal with ISIS as commander-in-chief.

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Fiorina: 'We must be prepared’ to use force on Russia

Amid conflicting reports about Moscow targeting U.S.-alllied groups in Syria, GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said late Wednesday that she backs military readiness against Russian forces. --“I believe we must tell the Russians that we will conduct [and] we will secure a no-fly zone around anti-Assad rebel forces that we’re supporting,” she said on Fox News’s "Hannity."

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Lies, Carly Fiorina and Abortion

There has been an impressive amount of angry liberal commentary, which has spilled over into the mainstream press coverage (or do I repeat myself?) of the issue, about how in the last Republican presidential debate Carly Fiorina allegedly cited an entirely imaginary video in order to make a crazy claim about Planned Parenthood’s brain-harvesting ghoulishness that’s totally unsupported by the facts (but maybe not).

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Carly Fiorina Getting Attention in Iowa’s Romney Counties

Carly Fiorina’s support in the polls has climbed since the latest GOP debate. Another measure—Google search traffic data— puts a finer point on her gains. It shows that Mrs. Fiorina is seeing a spike in attention from a particularly important group of places: Iowa counties that voted for Mitt Romney in the 2012 GOP Caucus. --Iowa’s conservatives, among them tea party supporters and evangelical Christians, are spread across Iowa. By contrast, the party’s establishment bloc is mostly concentrated in counties based around large population centers. Win them and you likely will do well in the state.

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Carly Fiorina Is the New Mitt Romney

A former CEO gets taken to the woodshed for job cuts—and loses an election. Sound familiar? Carly Fiorina has a Mitt Romney problem. Fiorina, like Romney, is a wealthy former CEO from an affluent Republican family. Like Romney, she entered the Republican presidential contest assuming that her record running a large company would be one of her greatest assets. But she may be about to learn that her opponents have little trouble turning that record into her greatest liability.

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Fiorina once supported mandatory health insurance

Carly Fiorina, who has joined other leading Republican presidential candidates in denouncing Obamacare, once backed an individual mandate to buy health insurance that could put her at odds with others in the GOP. During a panel discussion on CNN's "Crossfire" in 2013 about the law with former CNN host Stephanie Cutter, Fiorina said she supports keeping the requirement that every American purchase health insurance.

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Fiorina lands first congressional endorsement from leading GOP congresswoman

Rising Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina received her first endorsement from a sitting member of Congress, just days after a strong debate performance that catapulted her to second place in the Washington Examiner's power rankings. Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., announced Sunday that she is backing the female GOP hopeful's presidential bid and will serve as Fiorina's co-chair in Kansas throughout the primary election cycle.

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Poll: Fiorina takes lead in New Hampshire post-debate

A Voter Gravity Poll released Friday shows Fiorina with 22 percent support among Granite State GOP Primary voters. She has a 4-point edge over her nearest competitor, billionaire Donald Trump, who has 18 percent support.

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Donald Trump accused Carly Fiorina of being a terrible businesswoman. Here are the facts

Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, is running for president on her business smarts. She led the company from 1999 to 2005, the first female head of a Fortune 50 firm — and controversies from her high-profile tenure resurfaced Wednesday at the Republican debate. --"Yes, we had to make tough choices," Fiorina said on the prime-time stage, "and in doing so, we saved 80,000 jobs, went on to grow to 160,000 jobs. And now Hewlett-Packard is almost 300,000 jobs. We went from lagging behind to leading in every product category and every market segment."

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Carly Florina: 'Ladies, Look At This Face'

Carly Fiorina's new campaign video release was filmed at the National Federation of Republican Women's conference. Beyond a response to Donald Trump's unflattering comment, Fiorina did far more... she gave a hearty yank at the veil of victimhood that Hillary and the Democrats have pushed on women for decades. How empowering!

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Fiorina Blasts Clinton, Asks Why Trump Is MIA

Republican hopeful Carly Fiorina said Monday that she feels like the only candidate going after Hillary Clinton and asked why Donald Trump is not training more of his attacks on the Democratic front-runner. --"First of all, boo hoo, Mrs. Clinton," Fiorina said on "Fox and Friends" when asked about Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rise in the polls and talk of her reviving the "war on women" attack on Republicans.

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