Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is going on the female-centric show "The View" to respond to the hosts' snide verbal attacks about her face during the third GOP presidential candidates' debate.
"I will face the ladies of 'The View' for the second time on Friday. I'm looking forward to it," Fiorina tells
Fox News.
During a post-debate analysis, "The View" host Michele Collins commented, "She kicked off her thing saying, 'You know people told me I didn't smile enough during the last debate.' She looked demented."
"I mean, her mouth did not downturn one time," Collins said, to which co-host Joy Behar then added the candidate looked like a Halloween mask, while Whoopie Goldberg defended Collins' language.
Fiorina tells Fox News she'll go on the show not looking for an apology, but to address her candidacy that's "been called offensive to women, by women."
"I've been told that I hate women because I'm pro-life, by women," Fiorina tells former "The View" host and current "Fox & Friends" show member
Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
"This is, unfortunately, what liberals do all too often."
"My message to the ladies of 'The View' is man up," she said. "If you want to debate me on policies, the Obama administration for example has been bad for women, Planned Parenthood is harvesting baby parts — if you don't like those facts or those messages, man up and debate me on them. But don't sink to talking about my face."
Fiorina also declared, "None of these liberal women scare me."
"What this points out is that liberals, and that includes liberal women, when they don't like the message, they attack the messenger," she said.
Fiorina is polling in sixth place, with 5.6 percent support, behind Jeb Bush's 6.6 percent, in a national averaging by
Real Clear Politics.
Trump remains the leader with 27 percent, followed by retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, with 22.2 percent in that polling average.
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