Fiorina Dominates Early Debate, Steals Headlines Friday

There has never been quite a field of Presidential candidates like this one – in either a Democratic or Republican primary – with 17 candidates vying for their party’s nomination.

The “self-made woman” continued to impress during an interview on the MSNBC morning show Friday, even getting applause from a live audience for her plan to reinvigorate the U.S. economy. When moderator Martha MacCallum asked about the bombastic ex-reality TV star’s recent ascent in the polls, she took her first big swipe at a fellow Republican. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said of Clinton.

“I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars for women’s health issues”, Bush said Tuesday.

Quizzed about his low approval rating, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal offered perhaps the best kids’ table mantra – ignore the pollsters. “Maybe it’s because I didn’t give to the Clinton Foundation or give to his wife’s campaign”.

Coverage coming out of the early debate was pro-Carly Fiorina; a Fox Twitter poll asked who won and Carly, the only female GOP candidate, had a landslide victory at 83 percent. And he went after Trump’s shifting positions over the years.

Asked what they would say to a family of undocumented immigrants at risk of being broken apart because of their proposed immigration policies, former Perry spoke of strategic fencing, aviation assets from Brownsville to Tijuana and increased personnel at the border.

Of course, Fiorina might have stood out less on the main debate stage Thursday, with a host of accomplished governors and senators and their large personalities and egos alongside her, along with the three-ring circus that is Donald Trump.

“I didn’t get a call from Bill Clinton before the campaign”, she said, referring to a phone call reported by the Washington Post on Wednesday, in which Clinton encouraged Trump to get more involved in GOP politics. “Did any of you all?” “And you’re not serious about destroying ISIL”. Pataki and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore kept talking about how they were governors during 9/11.

Miller suggested the two-tiered debate system may have given Perry more room to shine.

Fiorina’s debut on the GOP presidential debate stage drew widespread praise from members of the media.

Also on stage: A lineup of candidates with sharply conservative records and attention-grabbing personalities seeking to pull the party further to the right, including Texas Sen. But he wavered at times.

He said: “Americans are exhausted of hearing this debate want to go to ‘What are you going to do about illegal immigration?'”

Perry also said he would have rather had Fiorina negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran than Secretary of State John Kerry.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina called it “disturbing” that each time a homegrown terror attack occurs “it turns out we had warning signals”.

Republican activists and contributors said Fiorina, whose crusade and associated Super PAC slacked in the Republican cash pursue with a consolidated $4.8 million raised toward the end of June, ought to rapidly see money related advantages from her execution. That’ll be the key: Whether Fiorina can turn what’s still a 24-hour splash into momentum that gets her out of the polling doldrums and into the top 10 before next month’s second debate.