Carly Fiorina: 'Yes, I am running'

Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, announced Monday she was running for president.

On "Good Morning, America," Fiorina said: "Yes, I am running for president."

She then listed her qualities: "I understand how the world works. ... I understand bureaucracy and that's what our government's become."

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She also said she had a good handle on "executive decision making," something she said "you learn about ... by doing."

Fiorina, 60, whose early business career included sales at Bell System – where a boss held meetings with clients at strip clubs and introduced her as "our token bimbo" – is largely considered the underdog in an already crowded Republican field, the Washington Post reported.

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But her campaign will note her business mentality and worldwide contacts, something that differentiates her from Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, the newspaper said. Another plus of her campaign: She's not afraid to challenge Democratic Hillary Clinton, who announced her run weeks ago.

Fiorina will also likely speak of her work ethics that saw her rise from small office beginnings to the chief of a major corporation.

"It's only possible in the United States of America for a woman to start as a secretary and become a CEO and maybe, just maybe, run for the presidency of the United States," she said in April at a forum in Iowa, the Washington Post reported.