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Former technology executive Carly Fiorina formally entered the 2016 United States presidential race on Monday.
The ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO, a Republican, said Monday morning during an interview that she would be seeking the Republican nomination for president in the 2016 election.
She announced the move on Twitter with the simple message: “I am running for president.”
Fiorina, a former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, joins senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio in what is shaping up to be a crowded GOP field. The retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson announced his candidacy on Sunday; former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is expected to launch his campaign on Tuesday.
On her new campaign website, she wrote: “Only in the United States of America can a young woman start as a secretary and work to become chief executive of one of the largest technology companies in the world.”
She is viewed by many as the Republican party’s best foil to Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner among Democrats. In many of her public appearances, she has gone after the former secretary of state’s family nonprofit, the Clinton Foundation, and its dealings with foreign governments.
Image: Republican presidential candidate former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in Iowa. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters