– Fiorina confident –
Fiorina, the sole woman in the Republican race and the only candidate to rise from last month’s “undercard” debate to Wednesday’s main stage, delivered by many accounts a command performance.
The former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard offered passionate calls for defunding women’s health care provider Planned Parenthood, a publicly funded organization that offers abortions.
She also delivered a withering response to Trump’s insulting comments about her looks that he made in a recent magazine interview.
“I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr Trump said,” she said, offering him a cold stare and earning loud applause.
Trump, in a rare concession, replied: “I think she’s got a beautiful face, and I think she’s a beautiful woman.”
But Fiorina was not done.
She dominated the middle portion of the debate, showing command of military figures, slamming Clinton for what she called a lack of accomplishments, delivering an emotional call for increased drug treatment as she recalled losing a child to addiction and hitting Trump over his business practices.
“You ran up mountains of debt, as well as losses, using other people’s money,” Fiorina said.
“Why should we trust you to manage the finances of this nation?”
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