Carly Fiorina’s ability to appeal to women has caught the eye of David Axelrod, who was President Obama’s top campaign strategist in 2008 and 2012.
“Speaking to women in powerful way,” Axelrod tweeted Monday. The comment accompanied the video above, put out by a pro-Fiorina super PAC, which features Fiorina responding to Donald Trump’s mockery of her appearance. “Ladies, note to Democrat Party: We are not a special interest group. We are the majority of the nation,” she says in the video. “This is the face of a 61-year-old woman. I am proud of every year and every wrinkle.”
Axelrod, the architect of Obama’s upset of Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions in 2008, said the video “is really interesting, by inference hitting Trump & HRC.”
His praise comes as new polling shows Clinton losing support among female voters. A new ABC News/Washington Post survey pegs Clinton’s support among Democratic women at just 42 percent, down from 71 percent in July.
#share#Fiorina and Trump are expected to tangle on Wednesday during the second GOP presidential debate. “I will challenge Mrs. Clinton, any other politician, and the entertainer who’s running for office, to hold themselves to . . . account, because none of them are going to be able to stand up to . . . scrutiny,” she said during a Sunday campaign stop in New Hampshire.
For his part, Trump said that he regards Fiorina as “fair game” as well. “I want to talk about her corporate history, her failures at Hewlett-Packard,” he told the New York Times.“And that will be damaging enough to her.”
— Joel Gehrke is a political reporter for National Review.
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