Thankfully for Hilary Clinton, the “other woman” is no longer Monica Lewinsky. Unfortunately, this new woman may be even more of a threat, because she’ll fight long and hard to win, not a Clinton’s heart, but America’s. Welcome to the Presidential Election of 2016, Carly Fiorina.
This Austin native announced her decision to run on May 4, 2015, yet is struggling to prove herself as a threat to Hilary. This can be seen with Hilary projecting around 50-75% of the Democratic vote and Fiorina averaging between 1-5% of the Republican vote. Despite the public’s acknowledgement of her having never held a political office, Fiorina chooses to use this as a positive. Fiorina told host George Stephanopoulos of “Good Morning America” that “our nation was intended to be a citizen government,” and she fits perfectly into that description. Though having never served in office, Fiorina is not foreign to the realm of politics. In 2010 she ran for the US Senate but lost to Democratic incumbent Senator Barbara Boxer. Let’s not ignore that she managed to get 42% of the vote, and Boxer got 52%, in the predominantly liberal state of California. In 2008, she was the adviser to Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, as well as California co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2012.
Carly Fiorina stands out as a candidate, not being she is the only woman republican candidate, but because she was the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, making her the first female head of a Fortune 500 company. That’s no shock when you look at her academic record; Fiorina earned her undergraduate degree at Stanford and earned her two business degrees from Maryland and MIT. Her business experience is something that Clinton, as well as many of the other republican candidates, lack. Running as a central-right Republican, her strong support for business is clear. Socially, she stands in the middle, with her Pro-life stance and open support for gay marriage.
She started as a secretary at Hewlett-Packard and rose to CEO. Fiorina managed to win a large percentage of the vote for Senate in a primarily Democratic state. After being diagnosed in 2009, Fiorina can proudly say she is a cancer survivor. Politics aside, there is no question that Fiorina is not afraid of a challenge and will put up a fight before election season is over.
