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Liberals loving Carly? Fiorina wins over MSNBC crowd

Rhetoric on small businesses resonating, even with left

By Cheryl Chumley
Published August 7, 2015 at 11:30am

Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina, the clear winner of the 5 p.m. Fox News presidential debate, kept up her resonating rhetoric during tours of Friday morning talk shows, earning high marks from even those in the opposing Democratic and left-leaning camps.

On "Morning Joe" on MSNBC with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Fiorina brought out the message that won big on Fox News shortly before, talking about the need to bolster the economy by driving small business growth.

"We have to know what the engine of economic growth is," she said, on MSNBC. "You know what it is? Small businesses, new businesses, family owned businesses."

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The crowd, typically liberal in view, gave her applause while Brzezinski spoke kindly of the candidate. She said she doesn't usually agree with or even like Republicans, but that Fiorina "really inspires" her, the Blaze reported.

But Fiorina was far from finished. She also went on to explain: "Small businesses create two-thirds of the new jobs, they employ half the people. When we crush small business, we're now destroying more than we are creating. ... Government has gotten bigger and bigger, more powerful, for 50 years, under Republicans and Democrats alike. It's why people are tired of it. Let's quit talking and actually solve some of this."

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