Graham, a Republican candidate for president and U.S. senator from South Carolina, perfectly encapsulated his campaign during his remarks Monday at The Des Moines Register Political Soapbox at the State Fair.
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Yet when asked to name her military advisers for her campaign, Fiorina declined to answer.
“I believe that minimum wage should be a state decision, not a federal decision”, Fiorina told the crowd.
While CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she said, her company bought an Israeli company during a period of unrest in the region.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina criticized “crony capitalism” in an Iowa State Fair soapbox speech Monday, saying it’s hurting innovation and costing the economy jobs that have historically been created by small-business entrepreneurs.
“I know more of the world leaders on the stage today than anyone else, with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton, although I just didn’t do photo ops”.
“I would have a coalition of other countries, including us, on the ground beginning to degrade and destroy ISIS, because, as you begin to do it, that whole caliphate begins to fall apart, in my judgment”, he said on CNN’s “State of the Union”. “And the results are clear”, she said.
Iowa’s Republican governor says don’t read too much into August presidential polls.
It took Fiorina four years to pay her campaign staffers what they were owed for their labors – despite having a net worth in the tens of millions of dollars (currently, the figure is around $60 million). “We have a president that’s more respectful of the Ayatollah in Tehran than he is of the prime minister of Israel”. They’re all going to talk about I’ll do this and I’ll do that.
Fiorina took many lessons away from her defeat against Boxer that she can use in her quest for the presidency, she said.
“I can’t disagree with anything she said”, Wagemann said after the speech.
Fiorina lost by 10 percentage points to Boxer but was still encouraged with her performance as a decided underdog in a race against an incumbent in a state that leans heavily Democratic.
It’s a message that’s a lot different from other candidates.
Since the end of the first GOP presidential debates, Fiorina shot up in the polls.
Townsend said Fiorina would make a good vice president, though he could envision her at the top of the ticket.
“When a young boy or girl dies in Africa, we all lose a little bit of ourselves”, Kasich said while discussing his empathy for the continent. “Virtually every presidential candidate’s coming and we’re getting all kinds of national coverage”.
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DES MOINES | According to the man himself, under President Lindsey Graham the U.S. will commit ground troops to fight terrorists in the Middle East, Republicans will work with Democrats on entitlement reform and “we’re going to drink more”.
