Donald Trump rolls back insults of Carly Fiorina: ‘I’m talking about persona

“And look at all of your faces”. “I’m just saying what a mistake he made“.

“It is still very hard for male candidates to feel comfortable going against and attacking women, with the exception of Donald Trump, but he hasn’t done it to her face”, said political analyst Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a senior fellow at the University of Southern California School of Public Policy.

And after it came out in a Rolling Stone article that Trump wondered who would vote for someone with a “face” like Fiorina’s, Fiorina – the only woman in the race on the GOP side – hit back. Like Fiorina’s, they are respectable faces, but not ones that would attract Donald Trump.

Eleven Republican presidential candidates have qualified for next week’s primetime debate, a slate that features the full diversity of the GOP’s 2016 class and is believed to be the largest group to share a presidential debate stage in modern political history. “The face of leadership”, she said. At the first debate Trump was asked to defend calling women “fat pigs” by moderator Megyn Kelly; her reward for the question was to be publicly accused of menstruating.

The video, which, appeared on the CARLY for America channel on Monday, has attracted more than 200 comments. “Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!” “Are we serious?” he reportedly added. She has taken everything in stride regarding Trump’s comments, mostly brushing them off, although she has thrown in a few shots at the guy who is the Republican front-runner known for his brass comments and bluntness.

In any event, Carly’s ad manages, without directly attacking Trump, to say what a lot of women must be starting to think about him. At a backyard gathering of the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women not long after the first debate, Debra Janssen-Martinez said, Fiorina was all the talk.

If the undercard is a damp squib, a showdown between Trump and the hugely competent Fiorina would be box office, particularly as it provides watchers with a dry run for a possible future showdown between Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton should both win their respective party nominations.

Others, though, are looking for a candidate who says precisely what they are thinking in their rawest moments.

In some ways, Trump’s degrading remarks may help Fiorina. She’s taking what he said and making it positive, instead of trying to engage in a war of words on Twitter, or hold a fevered press conference to deliver an agitated stump speech calling him a blowhard. In today’s new ABC/WaPo poll, she’s the choice of two percent of men and three percent of women.

“I think he’s been really offensive in regards to women generally and to Carly especially“, Humphrey said.