Carly Fiorina: Hillary Can’t Pull ‘Gender Card’ Against Female Nominee Like Me

At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday morning, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina identified one of her main strengths as a possible 2016 GOP contender for the White House: Her neutralization of probably challenger Hillary Clinton’s gender leverage.

“I think that if Hillary Clinton were to face a female nominee, there are a whole set of things that she won’t be able to talk about,” Fiorina said, per the Washington Times. “She won’t be able to talk about being the first woman president. She won’t be able to talk about a war on women without being challenged. She won’t be able to play the gender card.”

“And so what she will have to run on is her track record, her accomplishments, her candor and trustworthiness and her policies,” she continued. “And I think that’s what elections should be run on — not identity politics, not what you look like, but who you are, and what you believe, and what you’ve done, and what you will do.”

Fiorina has been adamantly attacking Clinton for months, leading Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski to ask earlier this week whether Fiorina had the right to do so given her own controversial record as an executive and failed senatorial candidate.

[h/t Washington Times]
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