Fiorina on Debate: 'I'm Hillary Clinton's Worst Nightmare'

GOP candidate Carly Fiorina conceded Thursday that CNBC's moderators didn't ask "the best questions in the world," but the debate did allow her to go on the attack against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and to be seen on a national stage.

"Hillary Clinton has never met a progressive idea that she didn't like," the former Hewlett Packard CEO told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program.

"But trust me, I am Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare."

She continued on the attack on Clinton, telling the program that the former secretary of state "can talk all day long about being the first woman president, but the truth is her policies are bad for women, and men, and all the people she claims to be helping."

Fiorina continued that she does not believe the same moderators would have treated Clinton the way they treated the GOP candidates Wednesday night.

"That's why Ted Cruz, whose comment was absolutely right, that's why he got a rousing round of applause," she said. "And it's why the moderators got booed. I'm not quite sure I've ever seen that, but literally the moderators got booed by the audience. So no, Democrats are not treated this way."

Meanwhile, Fiorina said she wanted to remind the public that poll numbers are going up and down, but when you look at the 2012 and 2008 races, the people leading in polls went on to lose resoundingly, because "elections are won by voters."

Fiorina, also appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program, commented on her plan for boosting small businesses, which create two-thirds of the new jobs int he country.

"We are experiencing a net loss of 70,000 small businesses a year," she said. "That means we're not growing our economy. The only way to get small business growing and growing again is to start rolling back some of these regulations that have spewed out of government for decades or particularly in the last six years."

"The only way we get the economy growing and growing again, the only way we balance the big and powerful and small and powerless is to roll back the power of government," she said.



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