MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — Fresh off
a successful debate performance and polls showing her rising in popularity,
California businesswoman Carly Fiorinawas greeted by passionate crowds here Saturday at the Michigan
Republican Party's Leadership Conference.
In her
speech to a standing room only crowd at dinner, Fiorina laid claim to the
mantle of the political outsider in the race.
"We
have come to a pivotal point in our nation’s history where the potential of too
many Americans is being crushed by the weight, power, cost and ineptitude of
federal government and a professional political class who refuses to do
anything about it," she said. "The status quo isn’t working anymore.
The political class has failed us all, not because they’re bad people, but
because they’ve been part of the system for so long. Leaders in a citizen
government step forward, serve for a time and then they go home."
The
California business woman gained some fans during her visit to Michigan, the
second trip to the state this year.
"I
watched the debate and she was prepared for all the questions, with facts and
not a lot of bravado, but with some humor," said Marcy Jankovich, a
Jackson Republican who joined several hundred people jammed into a downtown
Mackinac Island bar to see Fiorina. "I say I'm a supporter, but it's still
a year before the election and there is about four people on my short list. But
right now, she's on top."
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