Manchester, N.H. — According to the longstanding cliché, presidential candidates campaign in “the snows of New Hampshire.” But they also campaign the summer before, and even the spring before. Carly Fiorina is logging some serious New Hampshire time here in early July.
She has never held office before, but has run before: She won the Republican Senate nomination in California in 2010. She had been CEO of Hewlett-Packard, the technology giant. And a surrogate for John McCain in the 2008 presidential campaign. In 2010, she lost her general election to the longtime senator Barbara Boxer. Evidently, Fiorina was just too conservative for today’s California. She is pro-life, for example. Before Election Day, one Democratic political pro said, “The issue of abortion alone is sufficient to sink Fiorina.” Being against abortion in California, he said, is like being against oil in Texas.
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