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Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. She is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). She was defeated in her attempt as the Republican nominee to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer in 2010.

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Carly Fiorina
stated on February 6, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com

Says she "is 6th in hard dollars raised and has more cash on hand than Governors (John) Kasich and (Chris) Christie combined."

True

By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on January 20, 2016 an Iowa Right to Life event in Des Moines

The United States has a "record number of abortions year after year after year."

False

By Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 a column posted on Medium

"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things — including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN

"One of the things I would immediately do … is bring back the warrior class -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. ... Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • December 16, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on November 17, 2015 a campaign stop in Concord, N.H.

"The vast majority of (Syrian) refugees are young, able-bodied men looking for work."

False

By Nick Reid • November 20, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on November 10, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has "no congressional oversight."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on November 10, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee

"Obamacare isn't helping anyone."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on November 1, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"

"We have record numbers of people living in poverty."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • November 1, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on October 28, 2015 the third Republican presidential debate

"92 percent of the jobs lost during Barack Obama’s first term belonged to women."

False

By Jon Greenberg • October 29, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on September 30, 2015 an interview on Fox News' "Hannity"

Planned Parenthood "is an organization that funnels millions of dollars in political contributions to pro-abortion candidates."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate

Says Donald Trump was "forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice, four times."

Mostly True

By Clayton Youngman, Lauren Carroll • September 21, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate

One of the Planned Parenthood videos shows "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, 'We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.' "

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • September 17, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN Republican debate

"The marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago."

True

By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on August 6, 2015 the first Republican presidential debate

Says Donald Trump has "changed his mind" on abortion.

True

By Jon Greenberg • August 11, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on August 9, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"

"If you look at the results of Obamacare, what you see is emergency room visits are up over 50 percent."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on July 12, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"

"We're destroying more businesses in the United States now than are being created for the first time in our history."

Half-True

By Joshua Gillin • July 12, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"

"We doubled the size of the company (Hewlett-Packard)."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • May 10, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on January 21, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

Says President Barack Obama is "not paying women equally by his own measures in his own White House."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • January 22, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on January 12, 2014 a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"

"Seventy percent of the people living in abject poverty are women."

False

By Jon Greenberg • January 15, 2014

Carly Fiorina
stated on August 18, 2013 an interview on ABC's "This Week"

"There are only four countries in the world that ... legalize abortion after five months -- China, North Korea, Canada and the U.S."

Half-True

By Julie Kliegman • August 22, 2013

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Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 the second GOP primary debate

When Carly Fiorina says Hewlett-Packard "revenues went up, that's because she bought Compaq. It was a terrible deal."

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • September 21, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 13, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation"

"The top man at Yale Law School came out ... with just a raging report" about former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, saying she is "one of the worst executives in his memory in history running the company."

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • September 13, 2015

Anonymous cyber-squatter
stated on May 4, 2015 a website

After laying off 30,000 people, Carly Fiorina said that in retrospect, "I would have done them all faster."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2015

Barbara Boxer
stated on October 15, 2010 a campaign ad

"Fiorina's plan would mean slashing Social Security and Medicare."

Mostly False

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 22, 2010

Barbara Boxer
stated on October 15, 2010 a campaign ad

"Carly Fiorina, she's against banning assault weapons."

Mostly True

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 21, 2010

Barbara Boxer
stated on September 15, 2010 a political ad

"As the CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers."

Mostly True

By Robert Farley • September 17, 2010

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