a muslim running. other headlines, let s get right to it. you judge candidates for president, not on their religion i would not advocate that we put a muslim in charge of this nation. donald trump is slipping and carly fiorina soaring to second place. the new cnn/orc poll out this morning shows hillary clinton bouncing back. i am a real person with all the pluses and minuses that go along with being that. head of state meetings with raul castro and the head of the cuban government. the fact that he s going from cuba to the united states is highly significant. pope francis comes to the nation s capital tuesday. the ceremony with lots of feel-good moments. only recently i ve started to feel like myself again. what a great honor it must be for you to honor me tonight.
the first poll since the second gop debate. donald trump still leading the race but that s eight points lower before the debate. ben carson dropping to third place. marco rubio seeing major increase over jeb bush but most notable, carly fiorina soaring in second place. more people know who i am and we know based on what s happened before this debate that as people come to know me and understand who i am and what i ve done and most importantly what i will do, they tend to support me. the truth is we re going to stay out here working hard every single day so that people who may be were introduced to me for the first time at that debate now gets know a little bit about me. some remarkable changes in these polls from just a couple of weeks ago.
know runs one of the biggest venture capital firms, the most important in silicon valley, kliner perkins, was one of the board members at hp who actually did vote to fire carly fiorina in 2005. and he recently took out a full-page ad in the new york times saying, guess what, we were wrong, it was one of the most dysfunctional corporate boards in history, carly fiorina saw it 100 yards down the field things that none of the rest of us did. she was forthright in what she did. and she was correct. and in fact many companies did not survive that era of the tech bust. hp did. and in the years that followed carly s tenure, the several years that followed, the country did very well and she has been proven to have had foresight and been right. tom perkins is no one to trifle with, and he is a strong supporter. congresswoman hayworth, thanks for taking the time and for answering the hard
how does she answer those as her popularity rises? well, carly has been absolutely fearless as you know about taking on the status quo and certainly she did that when she challenged barbara boxer, who is one of the ultimate political insider, in a very challenging state, certainly california carly fiorina clearly doesn t shirk away from a challenge. but in terms of her career at hp, she has said that she is happy to and proud to talk about her record there. she doubled the psi of the company. she quadrupled their cash flow. she tripled their company figure is very misleading because she presided over a merger and it wasn t that she grew the profits of the company. that doubling took place because she merged with another company and that merger has been seen years later as one of the biggest failures in the business world in 500 years. i challenge your premise because tom perkins, who as you
may very well produce the first female president of the united states but not hillary clinton. i think carly fiorina s emergence as a serious possibility of being on the ticket makes democrats even more wary of hillary clinton and that s the problem the clinton campaign is now looking at. fe carly fiorina s ascendency is bad for hb hk s campaign. donald trump has totally upended what this election campaign, the 2000 presidential campaign, is about. now he s on his way out perhaps, he s fading, he s a demagogue, he s demonstrated his ignorance of many, many facts in the debates that he s been featured. he can t handle serious questioning. he s got a big following but it s starting to dissipate perhaps. but he has defined this