Fiorina: Clintons part of ‘professional political class’
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina argued Saturday that Hillary Clinton is a political elite who does not deserve the Oval Office once occupied by her husband.
“Bill and Hillary Clinton are the personification of the professional political class,” Fiorina said of the former president and his wife at the Delaware GOP convention, according to The Delaware News Journal.
“It has nothing to do with the fact that either one of us are women,” she added of her frequent attacks on Hillary Clinton.
{mosads}“It has to do with the fact that 82 percent of the American people now believe that we have a professional political class that is more focused on preserving its power and privilege than it is on doing the people’s work.”
Fiorina also continued her ongoing attack on Hillary Clinton’s lack of transparency in the public eye.
“Since I declared my candidacy about three weeks ago, I’ve answered maybe 500 questions on-the-record,” she said.
“Hillary has answered maybe 20,” she added. “That’s maybe a generous estimate.”
Fiorina said she was an alternative to the big-government persona Hillary Clinton embodies.
Such vast bureaucratic power, she said, was “crushing the potential” of everyday Americans.
“That is not hyperbole,” Fiorina said of bloated government. “That is fact. The small and powerless get crushed.”
The former Hewlett-Packard CEO added that the growth of political power contradicted America’s traditional values.
“I think what people feel we are losing is the sense of limitless possibility that has always defined this nation,” Fiorina said.
Fiorina launched her 2016 campaign on May 4 in a video released online.
She has touted her business and technology background as a fresh alternative to more traditional politicians.
Hillary Clinton is widely considered the heavy favorite for the Democratic nomination next election cycle.
Fiorina, meanwhile, is part of one of the most crowded GOP presidential fields in recent memory.
The ex-technology executive is one of eight official contenders for the Republican coronation.
Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) were the party’s first three 2016 entrants.
They were joined on May 4 by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who announced his campaign on the same day as Fiorina.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) jumped in on May 5, marking his second attempt at the White House after a failed 2008 bid.
The GOP field then expanded even further this week, adding both former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) and former Gov. George Pataki (N.Y.).
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