Carly Fiorina is staffing up ahead of a potential 2016 bid, hiring a top RNC spokeswoman.
Sarah Isgur Flores served as the GOP’s deputy director of communications through the 2014 election cycle and she announced to friends via e-mail Friday that, starting Monday, she’ll begin work with Fiorina’s political-action committee, Unlocking Potential. Should the former HP CEO mount a presidential bid, Flores will serve as one of her top strategists. The 32-year-old Harvard Law graduate, a native Texan, also worked on Ted Cruz’s Senate campaign.
Fiorina, who served as a surrogate for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and mounted an unsuccessful bid to unseat California senator Barbara Boxer in 2010, is making increasingly clear that she is thinking seriously about a run for the White House. Having never been elected to office, she is a dark horse, but with women the top contenders for the Democratic party’s nomination, she could make herself a plausible vice-presidential nominee or cabinet secretary.