carly fiorina

During this morning’s American Spectator breakfast with journalists, Carly Fiorina, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in California, fielded a friendly question about whether Sarah Palin would back her over her 2010 GOP primary opponent Chuck DeVore.
“I have no idea,” said Fiorina. “You’ll have to ask Sarah Palin. She’s on a mega book [...]

At a breakfast with reporters this morning, California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina responded to a question about whether she would filibuster Obama nominees by saying that “elections have consequences,” but that she’d look at the nominees’ qualifications.
“I did not closely follow the Sonia Sotomayor nomination,” said Fiorina. “I was battling breast cancer. But I probably [...]

In my story on the surprisingly fractious GOP primary for the right to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer (R-Calif.), I mentioned that backers of Carly Fiorina had successfully placed negative oppo about Republican underdog Chuck DeVore. Today, DeVore’s swinging back with a Web video that accuses Fiorina of giving oppo to liberals, and — horror of [...]

Toward the end of my lengthy interview with California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore — my second interview to date with the conservative GOP candidate for U.S. Senate — I asked him to respond to a Huffington Post story that made much out of his friendship with part-time Obama birth conspiracy theorist Floyd Brown. I’ve gotten some [...]

“I am a pro-life conservative,” said Carly Fiorina. “I believe in the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. I am a fiscal conservative. In other words, I share the conservative values that many Republican voters share, and have been public about that for a very long time.”

I’ve been fascinated by the rise of Chuck DeVore, a Republican state assemblyman from California whose grassroots campaign against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) — and against brand-new Republican candidate Carly Fiorina — has transformed the Republican primary from a coronation to a neck-and-neck battle between conservative activists and GOP leaders. When I interviewed DeVore in [...]

[UPDATE: I originally misidentified Fiorinia's abortion stance. She's pro-life.]
Josh Kraushaar notices that Republicans have gotten the U.S. Senate candidates they wanted in New Hampshire and Illinois, where they “lacked a deep bench of viable recruits — and their political hopes were largely dependent on one specific candidate running.” This feeds this week’s meme that Republican [...]