GOP candidate Carly Fiorina said Thursday that she's "enormously gratified and pleased" at CNN's decision to change its
debate rules, and she's looking forward to taking the stage on Sept. 16.
"I"m the only candidate who has moved clearly from the bottom tier to the top tier," Fiorina told CNN's "New Day" program. "I'm now in the top five in every statewide poll, and easily in the top 10 in national polls. In fact, I was number four in the latest national poll. So I'm really looking forward to being on that debate stage."
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The former Hewlett Packard CEO also on Thursday confirmed that her office has received a party pledge being circulated by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, in which candidates promise to back the party's eventual nominee and not launch their own third-party campaigns, and she will "certainly sign it."
However, she said it's not enforceable, but she still thinks Donald Trump and and other candidates should sign it as a sign to voters that Republican primary voters' word can be trusted.
Fiorina also commented on the continuing sparring between Trump and Jeb Bush, saying that their arguments are typical for frontrunners in any political race. But unlike Trump, Fiorina said she admires the fact that Bush is multilingual, even while she believes "English is the official language of the United States."
She continued though, that she does not get many questions from voters about Trump, but instead they are more interested in her plans for immigration, Obamacare, the economy, Iran and ISIS.
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