Fiorina grew up in the Bay Area and became chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard there before plunging into politics with an unsuccessful run against Democratic Sen. And Fiorina fails that test, he said.
Advertisement
Before he announced his support for Cruz, Pence acknowledged Trump’s impact on the race. The numbers are clear, if Trump is the nominee, Hillary wins and she wins by double-digits.
IN is up next in the race for the presidential nomination. The race has pivoted to Indiana’s primary next Tuesday, which was shaping up to be Cruz’s best – and perhaps last – chance to slow Trump’s momentum in the battle for the nomination.
But Cruz was looking for a boost to his increasingly hard campaign after Tuesday’s drubbing by Trump, 69, in all five states that held primary elections: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island. “I think people are exhausted of a political class that promises much and delivers much of the same”, the statement said.
Mr. Trump called Ms. Fiorina “a nice woman”, but criticized her selection as “ridiculous” and “dumb” even before it was announced.
“Naming Carly’s dumb, because Carly didn’t do well”.
“I think she’s got a handsome face and I think she’s a lovely woman”, he said.
The multimillionaire former CEO also raised eyebrows when she told Glenn Beck that “only the wealthy, the powerful, the big and the well-connected” have prospered while “all the rest of us are getting crushed”, and used bogus statistics about women in the workplace to deflect from her opposition to equal pay legislation. “She can really help him here”.
“She is careful, she is measured, she is serious”, Cruz said at an Indianapolis rally in which he emphasized her business credentials. She oversaw the company’s controversial $19 billion merger with Compaq in 2001, in which more than 17,000 employees lost their jobs. Trump attacked the alliance as “collusion”.
She’s running on a ticket with Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who beat Ms. Fiorina for Senate in 2010. “She doesn’t get rattled over what is being thrown at her”.
In an Associated Press-GfK poll conducted in December 2015, Republican voters were more likely to say they had a favourable than an unfavourable view of Fiorina by a 47 per cent to 20 per cent margin, with 32 per cent unable to give a rating. Fiorina disagreed in her speech Saturday night. After that, her performance in the polls dropped, Trump pointed out.
“They talk in a negative way when they want to about Donald, and say he isn’t presidential”, Knight said.
Advertisement
“Mike Tyson endorsed me, I love it”, Trump said, adding, “You know all the tough guys endorse me, I like that”.
