Inside Carly Fiorina's California campaign meltdown
- 9 years ago
Los Angeles Carly Fiorina is surprising many Republicans with her meteoric rise to the top tier of the 2016 GOP race.
Before plummeting to a 10-percentage-point loss during a wave year for Republicans in 2010, the former chief executive mounted a fierce challenge to U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer with all of the same assets she is displaying now.
Facing that disbelief in an election climate favoring Republicans, the Boxer team set out on an intensive scrub of Fiorina's business record, sifting through her countless interviews, speeches and public statements.
Asked about the criticism of Fiorina's corporate record in 2010 and how the campaign would handle H-P related attacks this cycle, a Fiorina spokeswoman referred calls to former Iowa House Speaker Christopher Rants, a senior adviser to the campaign, who noted that an increasing number of Fiorina's colleagues were coming forward to tell the positive side of her H-P legacy.
Before plummeting to a 10-percentage-point loss during a wave year for Republicans in 2010, the former chief executive mounted a fierce challenge to U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer with all of the same assets she is displaying now.
Facing that disbelief in an election climate favoring Republicans, the Boxer team set out on an intensive scrub of Fiorina's business record, sifting through her countless interviews, speeches and public statements.
Asked about the criticism of Fiorina's corporate record in 2010 and how the campaign would handle H-P related attacks this cycle, a Fiorina spokeswoman referred calls to former Iowa House Speaker Christopher Rants, a senior adviser to the campaign, who noted that an increasing number of Fiorina's colleagues were coming forward to tell the positive side of her H-P legacy.