“I hope it’s pretty clear that I am a fighter,” the former Hewlett-Packard CEO said on CNN’s “New Day” Thursday. “If you can’t fight on a debate stage than you’re not going to be able to stand up” for Americans.

She said she was pleased with her performance and, though she interrupted some of the other challengers on the debate stage, made all the points she wanted to.

Fiorina, who was widely praised for her performance in Wednesday’s CNN debate, also touched on a humanizing moment in the debate when she addressed the war on drugs through her daughter’s death, saying during the debate that she and her husband “buried a child to drug addiction.”