”I think that she could be the real wild card in this thing, and I’m very impressed by her,” Adams said. “The thing that I find with Carly, and I’ve listened to her three times now, is that she debunks all the Democratic attacks on the ‘war on women.’ Coming from a woman, it has so much more validity.”
Though Fiorina is barely registering in the polls, Adams isn’t the only GOP activist in New Hampshire who sees something in the long-shot contender and is particularly intrigued by her status as the only Republican woman exploring a presidential run with any degree of earnestness.
Other New Hampshire politicos already have imagined a scenario in which Fiorina would benefit from being the lone female voice on a stage containing close to a dozen men when the 2016 Republican candidates square off in their first debate…
“The thing she points out that’s refreshing to a lot of women is that we care about a lot of different subjects, yet we’ve been pigeonholed into caring about just one issue,” much of it involving women’s reproductive rights, said Karen Testerman, a conservative activist who was briefly a Republican candidate in the U.S. Senate race last year.
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