Virginia Senate race: Carly Fiorina rules out run, Jim Gilmore 'considering' candidacy

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN
Updated 10:21 AM ET, Fri September 8, 2017

(CNN)Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina said Friday that she would not seek the Republican nomination for US Senate in Virginia's 2018 election.

"I have made a decision," Fiorina said on the John Fredericks Show. "I have decided that I can be of more value outside the system than a single voice among a hundred inside the system. So, I'm going to continue the work I've been doing for many years enlisting up leaders and problem solvers all across the country and have made the decision not to seek the US Senate seat here in the Commonwealth."

Fiorina announced months ago on the same show she was considering a run.

Fredericks speculated on air that former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore might jump in the race.When reached by CNN on Friday, Gilmore said he was "considering" the possibility of his candidacy."I'm considering if I should pursue the candidacy," Gilmore said, noting he was waiting to see how Virginians felt about incumbent Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/08/politics/kfile-fiorina-gilmore-virginia/index.html

[comradebillyboy]

1. I thought Snarley was from California...nt

[Va Lefty]

2. She was she now lives in Northern Va. (lucky us)

[comradebillyboy]

4. California's gain is Virginia's loss...nt

[xxqqqzme]

3. She lost the CA senate race

to Barbara Boxer.

Is she moving around the country trying on states to see which one will elect her?

[keithbvadu2]

8. Thinking of Scott Brown, the Mass. refugee candidate

[underpants]

5. Gilmore is literally the dumbest person ever to be Gov. of Virginia

This was told to me by a lifelong Republican and longtime state worker. Gilmore could never wrap his head around the biennial nature of the state budget.

[Blue_Tires]

7. +1

[keithbvadu2]

6. Gilmore left the state economy in such bad shape that the republican majority legislature (both side

Gilmore left the state economy in such bad shape that the republican majority legislature (both sides) approved the 'largest tax hike in Virginia's history' (at the time) to fix it.

[SharonClark]

9. She needs to get a real job and quit this 'running for office' thing.

She not good at it.

[Scarsdale]

10. How stupid.

"rather than be one voice among a hundred" she is going to be one voice among MILLIONS! Maybe she had more cosmetic surgery, and ended up even more grotesque?

[Initech]

11. You can only whack-a-troll so long before it's game over.

Bye bye Carly!