'I'm not afraid,' Fiorina says of her rise in GOP field and attacks that will follow

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Sunday again backed a government shutdown to defund Planned Parenthood and said she wasn’t “afraid” to be the rising star in the GOP field.

 

“I’m not afraid,” the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive said in a “Fox News Sunday” interview. “I’ve battled cancer. I’ve buried a child.”

 

Fiorina vaulted into second place in a CNN/ ORC International poll released Sunday, after a strong debate performance Wednesday night.

 

She barely qualified for the CNN main debate of top-10 candidates and had until now often polled in the single digits.

 

Fiorina, whose personal story includes a breast cancer diagnosis in 2009 and losing a stepdaughter to drug addiction, is now at 15 percent, up 3 percentage points from a CNN poll last month.

 

“It’s obviously a very important moment because now more people know who I am,” she said Sunday. “As people come to know me and they understand who I am and what I've done and, most importantly, what I will do, they tend to support me.”

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Carly rising.