“There are people out there — lots of people, men and women — who think it’s time for a woman president. My message to them will be, ‘How about an honest woman?'”

— Carly Fiorina, quoted by The Hill.

Washington Post: “Fiorina gained a key opportunity this fall when she rose in the polls after two strong debate performances that showcased her direct delivery style and command of the issues. But with businessman Donald Trump monopolizing media attention, and without the deep campaign organization of the other leading candidates, Fiorina is seeing her opportunity slip away.”

“Her road back to relevance could prove challenging, with voting in Iowa and New Hampshire just weeks away. The effort begins Tuesday in Nevada, where CNN will host the final Republican debate of the year.”

CNN: “Fiorina rocketed from a little-known, first-time presidential candidate to one of the Republican Party’s top-tier contenders thanks to well-reviewed debate performances in August and September. But she has virtually vanished since. Wednesday’s debate will give Fiorina another chance to make a good impression and generate some positive headlines.”

“I think I am distinctly horrifying to liberals.”

— Carly Fiorina, quoted by Politico, after a poll was released showing her besting Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical general election matchup in Iowa.

Carly Fiorina’s failed 2010 U.S. Senate bid left behind “more than 30 invoices, totaling about $500,000, that the multimil­lionaire didn’t settle — even as Fiorina reimbursed herself nearly $1.3 million she lent the campaign. She finally cleared most of the balance in January, a few months before announcing her run for president,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Fiorina’s former campaign manager Martin Wilson: “Occasionally, I’d call and tell her she should pay them. She just wouldn’t.”

Daily Beast: “The Fiorina Foundation was not registered with the secretary of state in California or the county clerk in Santa Cruz, where Fiorina resided at the time. It wasn’t registered with the IRS, either. Meaning that, were it really a foundation, it would be violating the law, which demands that private foundations file annual 990 forms.”

“In response to a report, by the San Francisco Chronicle, revealing Fiorina’s apparent lack of compliance, she said she was in fact under no obligation to register the Fiorina Foundation, because what she called her foundation was not a private foundation at all.”

“Carly Fiorina has emerged as the Republican candidate of the moment in conservative fundraising circles, drawing the notice of the billionaire Koch brothers and other wealthy donors who could instantly remake her shoestring presidential campaign,” Reuters reports.

“Fiorina’s show-stealing performance in a Republican presidential debate last month, and her subsequent surge in the polls, has prompted industrialists Charles and David Koch to take a ‘serious look’ at the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, according to three sources close to the brothers. She has now moved to the short list of candidates the Kochs may support with their reported $1 billion war chest, the sources said. Florida Senator Marco Rubio is among those on the coveted list, the sources said.”

Carly Fiorina said that “she had plenty of job offers after being fired as the CEO of Hewlett Packard, including posts in the George W. Bush administration, but she decided against them,” Politico reports.

Said Fiorina: “I didn’t want to go back to work as a CEO… I wanted a break, and then I wanted to give back.”