Former GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina insisted Thursday that she's said all along that she would support the eventual party nominee in November, but she thinks that for now, that's a hypothetical question and she prefers to concentrate on making sure Ted Cruz is that nominee, not Donald Trump.
"You guys keep asking hypotheticals," the ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO told MSNBC's
"Morning Joe" program, one day after announcing that she was
endorsing Cruz's campaign.
"It's March. Don't ask me a hypothetical. We'll see what happens on Tuesday in Florida. We'll see what happens in this election. But we've got a long way to go between now and November."
Fiorina said she weighed both Trump and Cruz while she was in the voting booth, and believes that Cruz is the candidate who will challenge the system, not Trump.
"Here is the thing about Donald Trump, he and Hillary Clinton are two sides of the same coin," she said. "Donald Trump is the system that needs to be reformed. Hillary Clinton ask the system that she claims she will reform."
"Why are voters voting for Donald Trump?" she said. "It's not because the voters are stupid, it's because Donald Trump is lying to them. The big lie Donald Trump is telling is that he's going to reform the system. He's not going to reform the system. He is the system."
But the way to beat both of them is not through an establishment leaders' push to defeat Trump, but at the ballot box.
"I believe character is revealed over time and under pressure and I think Ted Cruz's character has been revealed because never has he gotten down in the gutter," said Fiorina. "Never has he hurled personal insults. Never has he attacked groups of people."
She also complained that Trump gets an oversized amount of time in the media eye, even though now he's starting to be asked some tough questions.
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