On Monday, businesswoman and former 2016 GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said it is &#8220;vital&#8221; that President Donald Trump be impeached, adding that the Republican Party now &#8220;sadly&#8221; stands for &#8220;loyalty to Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;I think [Trump] is going to be impeached, and I think he won’t be removed from office,&#8221; Fiorina told CNN host Poppy Harlow.
&#8220;I think it is vital that he be impeached,&#8221; she continued, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/16/carly_fiorina_it_is_vital_that_trump_is_impeached.html">RealClear Politics</a>. &#8220;Whether removed this close to an election, I don’t know, but I think the conduct is impeachable.&#8221;
&#8220;And what I regret is that the principles that are being debated in this impeachment trial – separation of powers, abuse of power, obstruction of Congress – those principles are not as immediate or intense as partisanship or people’s belief that the policies that I care about impact me personally,&#8221; Fiorina added. &#8220;So for example, there is a large pro-life community in this country, and they feel disrespected by the Democrat Party, and my prediction is, they will stand by Trump through everything, because that issue is not only important to them, but it&#8217;s personal to them.&#8221;
&#8220;It is notable that you, a Republican, who has run for office for the Senate as a Republican, for president as a Republican, who may run again as a Republican, is saying it is, quote, vital that he be impeached,&#8221; Harlow commented.
Fiorina told Harlow that her &#8220;message&#8221; to her Republican friends in the House and Senate would be that &#8220;hanging onto a job is not the most important thing.&#8221;
&#8220;In this country, we don&#8217;t pledge allegiance to a party or to a president,&#8221; she said. &#8220;In this country, principles matter, and in particular the principle that we have co-equal branches of government and that no one is above the law, and that it is Congress&#8217; duty to oversee and to investigate.&#8221;
When asked about what the Republican Party stands for following the 2016 presidential election, Fiorina hit the same note.
&#8220;Loyalty to Trump is what I think it stands for,&#8221; she answered. &#8220;Sadly, sadly.&#8221;
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Question: &quot;What does the Republican Party today stand for?&quot;
Carly Fiorina: &quot;I don&#39;t know. Loyalty to Trump is what I think it stands for.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/GO6q0QI1BB">pic.twitter.com/GO6q0QI1BB</a>
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During the 2016 presidential election, then-candidate Trump took a shot at Fiorina&#8217;s appearance. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/09/10/trump-fiorina-look-face/71992454/">USA Today</a> reported in 2015:
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A newly published Rolling Stone article shows GOP front-runner Donald Trump mocking fellow candidate Carly Fiorina&#8217;s looks when he sees her on TV.
When the anchor throws to Carly Fiorina for her reaction to Trump&#8217;s momentum, Trump&#8217;s expression sours in schoolboy disgust as the camera bores in on Fiorina. &#8220;Look at that face!&#8221; he cries. &#8220;Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!&#8221;
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Fiorina responded to the comments during an appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;The Kelly File,&#8221; hosted by Megyn Kelly.
&#8220;Well, I think those comments speak for themselves and all the many, many thousands of voters that are helping me climb in the polls out there,&#8221; Fiorina said. &#8220;Yes, they&#8217;re very serious.&#8221;
Trump later defended his comments on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends.&#8221;
&#8220;Probably I did say something like that about Carly — I&#8217;m talking about persona, I&#8217;m not talking not about looks,&#8221; he contended, adding, &#8220;When I get criticized constantly about my hair, nobody does a story about &#8216;Oh, isn&#8217;t that terrible, they criticized Donald Trump&#8217;s hair.'&#8221;
WATCH the full interview, below:
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WATCH: Carly Fiorina Says It’s ‘Vital’ To Impeach Trump, Republican Party Stands For ‘Loyalty To Trump, Sadly’

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On this week&#8217;s &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special,&#8221; host Ben Shapiro spoke with businesswoman, author, and former 2016 GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina about the implications of Robert Mueller&#8217;s final report on his investigation into President Trump&#8217;s campaign. Video and partial transcript below:
Ben Shapiro: So, my brief take on the Mueller report is that it has an enormous amount of both embarrassing and terrible behavior by the President of the United States. As a lawyer I didn&#8217;t see anything that rises to the level of criminal obstruction of justice. Obviously, William Barr felt the same. Robert Mueller had the capacity to rule on that; he didn&#8217;t. He sort of kicked it over. I didn&#8217;t see more evidence of collusion than was already there; I didn&#8217;t see criminal collusion. What was your overall assessment of the Mueller report and what ought to happen from here?
Carly Fiorina: Well, first let me say, one of the things I learned in my brief time in law school is that lawyers can disagree, and apparently a lot of lawyers disagree about this. I&#8217;m not a lawyer, but as a citizen reading this report I found the report &#8212; first of all, you&#8217;re right, and Mueller is very clear in this report that he sets a very high bar. It&#8217;s called criminal conduct, that&#8217;s a very high bar to have to clear. I would also say the report is carefully and precisely written. I would say that Trump is not exonerated. I would also say Trump did not fully cooperate, but more to the point &#8211; the Russian interference, that volume of the report is stunning and shocking, and the fact that we are not having a conversation in this country about how to prevent that from happening again is really dereliction of duty I think, honestly. And the fact that both Republicans and Democrats, in fairness, have taken that as a political issue, it&#8217;s not a political issue. The &#8220;sweeping, systemic,&#8221; I&#8217;m quoting as you know &#8212; the &#8220;sweeping, systemic&#8221; interference in our elections by the Russians is now a political football, and it should not be.
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Do you remember when Republicans were so upset because President Obama whispered to President Medvedev and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll have more flexibility after the election.&#8221; And Republicans went up in arms &#8220;oh my gosh!&#8221; Of course, the FBI had to investigate the hints that they were given; there was a lot there, and we should be shocked by what has been uncovered, and alarmed. I would also say that in volume two, I accept I&#8217;m not a lawyer, it wasn&#8217;t criminal conduct, but this is not the way a President of the United States and his staff should be behaving. My question is if it were a Democrat doing this, what would Republicans be saying?
See here&#8217;s the thing about principles, they&#8217;re sometimes inconvenient. And if a principle is right when it&#8217;s a Democrat in the White House, then that principle remains right when a Republican is in the White House. I think the Republican Party, the Democrat Party too, has to kind of get focused on &#8220;what are our principles?&#8221; And I think our principles, as a conservative, are power concentrated, is power abused, decision-making has to be dispersed, huge bureaucracies have to be reformed, people closest to the problem know best how to solve them, and that definitely doesn&#8217;t mean people in Washington, D.C. &#8212; it means people in cities and communities and families and businesses, and we are a long way from those principles.

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Cosmopolitan magazine decided to be woke on Tuesday when they published a piece by writer Rebecca Nelson titled &#8220;7 Women Who Could Be Our First Female President.&#8221; The <a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a10212918/female-presidential-candidates-2020-election/">article</a> highlights several high profile women said to be possible candidates for the White House. 
The magazine acknowledges former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s humiliating defeat at the hands of President Donald Trump and gives a list of possible candidates. 
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<li>Kirsten Gillibrand, senator from New York who is known for trying to obstruct President Trump&#8217;s cabinet picks. </li>
<li>Kamala Harris, junior senator from California who was recently chastised for interrupting witness testimony during hearings. </li>
<li>Elizabeth Warren, also known as Fauxcahontas, the Massachusetts senator and fake Native American who has made a name for herself as a hard leftist. </li>
<li>Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota senator who has little national recognition, but is on the list nonetheless to replace Michelle Obama.</li>
<li>Tammy Duckworth, Illinois senator who is also a disabled veteran. </li>
<li>Sheryl Sandberg, a businesswomen who was a member of the Clinton Administration and worked for Facebook at one point. </li>
<li>Finally, there is Oprah. The media mogul has hinted at a possible try for the White House, but has since ruled out a run. </li>
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Notice the lack of an elephant in the room? Every single person listed is a member of the Democrat Party or at least a major donor. Not one is a Republican. It sends out a confirmation that the media does not believe conservative women are equal to their leftist counterparts. 
Nelson addressed this on Twitter after being called out for the obvious bias. She claimed that the article was about 2020 specifically and not a hypothetical election. GOP women would not challenge Trump in the next cycle, she declared.
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yes, they certainly do! but no GOP women are likely to challenge Trump in 2020, which is what this article is about <a href="https://t.co/3gg7QMBCN0">https://t.co/3gg7QMBCN0</a>
&#8212; Rebecca Nelson (@rebeccarnelson) <a href="https://twitter.com/rebeccarnelson/status/879794504357818369">June 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Her tweet was in response to Future Female Leaders (FFL), an organization for conservative women. The group criticized the article on Twitter, saying &#8220;Yes, Cosmo, GOP women exist.&#8221; In response, <a href="http://futurefemaleleader.com/">FFL</a> released their own list of GOP women who could become the first female president; a diverse group of women who each have the experience to be commander-in-chief. 
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<li>Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and current U.N. ambassador; she has shown courage within the preeminent international institution, standing up to countries for their anti-Israel bias. </li>
<li>Mia Love, the congresswoman who is the first African-American elected to the House of Representatives from the state of Utah. </li>
<li>Condoleezza Rice, the former Secretary of State has been mentioned as a potential candidate, but has declined to run, preferring teaching to politics since leaving the Bush Administration. </li>
<li>Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and 2016 GOP presidential candidate. She was among the second tier nominee group, but was promoted to primetime following a surge in the polls. </li>
<li>Joni Ernst, senator from Iowa who also served as a Lt. Colonel in the Iowa National Guard before entering politics. </li>
<li>Elise Stefanik, representative from New York and the youngest woman elected to Congress at the age of 30 in 2014. She is constitutionally too young at the moment, but only has a few years to go. </li>
<li>Susanna Martinez, former governor of New Mexico who was the first woman and first Hispanic female to serve in that position. </li>
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The Comopolitan article is another example of the mainstream media ignoring the contributions of conservative women in the realm of politics. They ignore these seven impressive women and countless others who would serve with distinction as president. 
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Nikki Haley. 
Mia Love. 
Condoleezza Rice. 
Carly Fiorina. 
Joni Ernst. 
Elise Stefanik. 
Susana Martinez &amp; more. 
Yes, Cosmo, GOP women exist. <a href="https://t.co/WLgXV5dzNv">https://t.co/WLgXV5dzNv</a>
&#8212; FutureFemaleLeaders (@FFL_of_America) <a href="https://twitter.com/FFL_of_America/status/879762807700545537">June 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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In a Facebook post published Saturday morning, former Republican presidential contender Carly Fiorina said what many GOP operatives have been thinking this entire weekend: Donald Trump needs to go.
&#8220;Today I ask Donald Trump to step aside and for the RNC to replace him with Gov. Mike Pence,&#8221; declared Fiorina.
Here&#8217;s the full Facebook post. She published the same declaration on Twitter shortly after:
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Fiorina unequivocally drew distance from the scandal-ridden GOP nominee, stating flat-out that the man is unfit to lead.
&#8220;Donald Trump does not represent me or my party,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Donald Trump has manifestly failed in these responsibilities.&#8221;
For Fiorina, Trump&#8217;s misogynistic behavior is personal. During the primary season, the real estate mogul made a now infamous remark about his then-opponent, aka the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard:
&#8220;Look at that face!,&#8221; Would anyone vote for that?,&#8221; Trump <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/253178-trump-insults-fiorinas-physical-appearance-look-at-that-face">said</a> of Fiorina in a September 2015 interview with Rolling Stone. &#8220;I mean, she&#8217;s a woman, and I&#8217;m not s&#8217;posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s regressive attitudes about women date back months, years, and even decades, but the grotesque comments heard in an audio recording uncovered by The Washington Post on Friday appear to have vividly illuminated what many have known all along. 
Indeed, the video has led to a mass exodus of GOP women leaving the Trump Train:
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&#8220;I wanted to be able to support my party&#8217;s nominee, chosen by the people, because I feel strongly that we need a change in direction for our country,&#8221; stated New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte. &#8220;However, I&#8217;m a mom and an American first, and I cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women.&#8221;
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Notably, Ayotte herself faces a tough re-election against a Democratic candidate who has attempted to link the GOP senator with the Trump dumpster fire. 
Here&#8217;s Alabama Rep. Martha Roby&#8217;s tweet, following the video&#8217;s widespread publicity:
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Donald Trump&#8217;s behavior makes him unacceptable as a candidate for president, and I won&#8217;t vote for him.
Full statement: <a href="https://t.co/Ge7GU1TSvm">pic.twitter.com/Ge7GU1TSvm</a>
&#8212; Rep. Martha Roby (@RepMarthaRoby) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMarthaRoby/status/784755864116797441">October 8, 2016</a></blockquote>
&#8220;The appropriate next step may be for [Trump] to reexamine his candidacy,&#8221; <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/republican-women-trump-229360">added</a> Republican West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.
&#8220;The comments made by Mr. Trump were disgusting and totally unacceptable under any circumstance,&#8221; <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/republican-women-trump-229360">affirmed</a> Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer, one of the most vocal female Trump advocates in the Senate. &#8220;It would be wise for him to step aside and allow Mike Pence to serve as our party&#8217;s nominee.&#8221;
Alaska Sen. <a href="http://thehill.com/people/lisa-murkowski">Lisa Murkowski</a> reiterated the position of her female GOP colleagues, stating bluntly that Trump has &#8220;forfeited the right to be our party&#8217;s nominee.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s a full list of female GOP lawmakers who have come out against Trump, courtesy of <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/where-do-all-28-gop-women-in-congress-stand-on-donald-trump/">CBS News</a>:
Senate:
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<li>Susan Collins (R-Maine)</li>
<li>Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)</li>
<li>Kelly Ayotte, (R-New Hampshire)</li>
<li>Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska)</li>
<li>Shelly Moore Capito (R-West Virginia)</li>
<li>Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)</li>
</ul>
House:
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<li>Cathy McMorris Rodgers, House GOP Conference Chair (R-Washington)</li>
<li>Martha Roby (R-Alabama)</li>
<li>Susan Brooks (R-Indiana)</li>
<li>Barbara Comstock (R-Virginia)</li>
<li>Mia Love (R-Utah) </li>
<li>Ann Wagner (R-Missouri)</li>
<li>Jackie Walorski (R-Indiana)</li>
<li>Elise Stefanik (R-New York)</li>
<li>Martha McSally (R-Arizona)</li>
<li>Vicki Hartzler (R-Missouri)</li>
<li>Kristi Noem (R-North Dakota)</li>
<li>Lynn Jenkins (R-Kansas)</li>
<li>Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming)</li>
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Despite her heated public feud with Donald Trump during the primary, which took a particularly ugly turn after Trump criticized &#8220;that face,&#8221; former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has officially come out in support of her former rival. 
&#8220;We must have president Trump, we can&#8217;t have president Clinton,&#8221; said Fiorina at an event Wednesday.
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&#8220;We must have President Trump &#8211; we can&#8217;t have President Clinton.&#8221; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/CarlyFiorina">@CarlyFiorina</a> at WSRP <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FallDinner2016?src=hash">#FallDinner2016</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GR82BGOP?src=hash">#GR82BGOP</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ck5qUK3KtF">pic.twitter.com/Ck5qUK3KtF</a>
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The endorsement comes as a bit of a surprise after the pair&#8217;s contentious primary feud, which really heated up when Trump made a <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/253178-trump-insults-fiorinas-physical-appearance-look-at-that-face">comment</a> about Fiorina&#8217;s appearance in an interview with the Rolling Stone in September.
&#8220;Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?&#8221; remarked Trump while watching Fiorina on the news. &#8220;Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she&#8217;s a woman, and I&#8217;m not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?&#8221;
Fiorina <a href="https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/641784472543870976">responded</a> on &#8220;The Kelly File&#8221; later that day, saying, &#8220;Maybe I&#8217;m getting under his skin a little bit because I am climbing in the polls.&#8221; 
She also had a chance to counter the insult during the CNN Republican primary debate the next week,saying, &#8220;I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said.&#8221;
The statement earned loud applause from the audience.
&#8220;I think she&#8217;s got a beautiful face and I think she&#8217;s a beautiful woman,&#8221; replied Trump.
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As recently as June, insiders said that Fiorina <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/carly-fiorina-wont-lift-a-finger-to-help-donald-trump/article/2593918">would not lift a finger</a> to help the Republican nominee, but clearly with November rapidly approaching, she has decided a President Trump would be less disastrous than a President Clinton.

Carly Fiorina: ‘We Must Have President Trump.’ FLASHBACK: Trump: ‘Look At That Face!’

Duck Dynasty&#8217;s Phil Robertson once again defied political correctness, enraged the left, and made headlines this weekend in a speech at the <a href="http://www.ccu.edu/centennial/western-conservative-summit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Western</a><a href="http://www.ccu.edu/centennial/western-conservative-summit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Conservative Summit</a>, an annual conservative event held in Colorado that featured the likes of Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, Sarah Palin, and the Daily Wire&#8217;s own <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/node/7155">Ben Shapiro</a>. 
Among Robertson&#8217;s topics was the &#8220;transgender bathroom&#8221; movement, which he made more than clear he wasn&#8217;t getting behind. 
&#8220;Now there&#8217;s grown men barging in on you ladies when you&#8217;re putting your Maybelline on,&#8221; said Robertson. 
&#8220;Here&#8217;s a newsflash, you see this,&#8221; he said, gesturing to his trademark beard. &#8220;This be male.&#8221;
&#8220;All you ladies, you will never ever catch this cat coming up in your bathroom,&#8221; he continued. 
The audience loved it.
This isn&#8217;t the first time Robertson has weighed in on the bathroom and &#8220;gender identity&#8221; debate. In May, he offered a &#8220;radical idea&#8221; on the issue, saying in a statement, &#8220;Men should use the men&#8217;s bathroom and women should use the women&#8217;s bathroom. Just because a man may &#8216;feel&#8217; like a woman doesn&#8217;t mean he should be able to share a bathroom with my daughter, or yours. That used to be called common sense. Now it&#8217;s called bigoted.&#8221;
Prior to his comments on transgender bathrooms at the summit, Robertson knocked the Supreme Court&#8217;s 5-4 ruling making same-sex marriage a constitutionally protected right. 
&#8220;When you allow men to determine what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong, you get decisions like the five judges who said, &#8216;I may not know we have 7,000 years of history of men marrying women &#8212; a male and a female. &#8216;For that reason, they&#8217;ll leave their father and mother and cleave to one another and become one flesh.&#8217; I know it&#8217;s been that way for 7,000 years, but we know best for what&#8217;s everybody,'&#8221; he <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/07/05/duck-dynasty-star-phil-robertson-makes-argument-for-the-existence-of-jesus-in-world-conservative-summit-speech/">said</a>.
Robertson also made a simple observation about the centrality of Jesus to Western history, which the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/phil-robertson-proof-of-jesus_us_577b0250e4b09b4c43c0f4aa">liberal media </a>is going apoplectic over. 
&#8220;If your calendar is dated of all the human beings who have ever walked on the Earth, and your calendar is dedicated and predicated to just one of them, evidently something rather large went down,&#8221; said the Duck Dynasty patriarch (a line that the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/duck-dynasty-star-phil-robertson-offers-best-proof-jesus-article-1.2698636" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NY Daily News</a> countered lamely by noting that many of the names of the months are based on the names of pagan gods). 
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Last week, over 500 young conservative and libertarian female student activists from across the U.S. gathered in Dallas, Texas, for Turning Point USA&#8217;s 2nd annual Young Women&#8217;s Leadership Summit (YWLS). While progressives were busy <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/6613/obama-im-what-feminist-looks-amanda-prestigiacomo">celebrating dead babies</a> and <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/6731/lol-feminist-organizes-no-bra-day-teach-men-not-amanda-prestigiacomo">flashing unkempt lady parts</a> presumably for the sake of empowering women, the young YWLS attendees were busy learning about ways they can be America&#8217;s youngest generation of &#8220;<a href="http://turningpointusa.net/winningwomen/">winning women</a>.&#8221;
For three days, the diverse crowd of like-minded female high school and college students <a href="http://turningpointusa.net/second-annual-young-womens-leadership-summit/">representing 42 different states</a> participated in conservative activist training, networking, seminars with guest speakers, and an optional first-class banquet. They heard from successful female role models such as Carly Fiorina, Mary Katharine Ham, Katie Pavlich, Katherine Timpf, and Tomi Lahren.
These young women, unlike the stereotypical <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/6188/college-student-voiced-her-pro-life-view-heres-amanda-prestigiacomo">campus feminists</a> often in the press for mob-like tendencies and their role as mortal<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/6701/feminist-says-she-doesnt-care-about-alligator-amanda-prestigiacomo"> enemies of the &#8220;white male&#8221; species,</a> were quite accepting of male voices just as well. They welcomed engaging discussions by conservative male speakers such as Guy Benson, Ben Shapiro, Joe Walsh, and TPUSA&#8217;s founder Charlie Kirk.

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Take that <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton">@HillaryClinton</a> !! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YWLS2016?src=hash">#YWLS2016</a> <a href="https://t.co/cyBGipMbT6">pic.twitter.com/cyBGipMbT6</a>
&#8212; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/742813268058603520">June 14, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Tennessee Representative Marsha Blackburn <a href="http://turningpointusa.net/second-annual-young-womens-leadership-summit/">opened</a> the event Sunday evening with lessons about hard work. Over the next couple of days, the women were taught how to use the internet as their personal power tool, and watched as successful businesswomen such as Amanda Owens and Heidi Ganahl shared personal stories of entrepreneurship.
Conservative female journalists such as Katie Pavlich, Ashley Pratte, and Amber Smith were featured in a Women in Media panel Tuesday, followed by an impassioned discussion with rape survivor Kimberly Corban on a woman&#8217;s right to defend herself via carry. Tomi Lahren talked about the illusion of modern-day feminism and its destructive underlying messages, and then joined the young audience for individual picture-taking.
A panel on Wednesday featuring Guy Benson and Mary Katharine Ham discussed their book, End of Discussion: How the Left&#8217;s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and fun!). Though American Airlines failed to deliver their next speaker, Ben Shapiro, to the YWLS stage that day, the audience was able to interact with him <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/6639/shapiro-addresses-hundreds-young-women-dallas-pardes-seleh">via Skype</a> as he spoke and took questions from the audience. The event concluded with a lecture from none other than Carly Fiorina.
The young attendees of #YWLS2016, ranging between ages 13 and 25, are the left&#8217;s worst nightmare because, unlike the Democratic female presidential candidate, their biggest asset is not their genitalia. These brilliant and well-educated young women have a lot more to offer America than identity politics, armpit hair, and government-subsidized birth control. They offer moral wit, integrity, and a strong desire to win; and the left is about to find out just how much.
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#YWLS2016: ‘The Left’s Worst Nightmare’

Feminism

Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro connected via Skype to speak to hundreds of millennial women participating in Turning Point USA&#8217;s <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://turningpointusa.net/winningwomen/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1466174823766000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFq4nskpC5sWv3WuSizUjHJx7Ux3A" href="http://turningpointusa.net/winningwomen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Young Women Leadership Summit</a> (YWLS) on Wednesday. Shapiro had been scheduled to make a 2 p.m. appearance at the Dallas summit, but plans fell through after American Airlines canceled his flight for technical reasons.
The YWLS was organized months in advance by Turning Point USA, a youth activist organization founded and spearheaded by millennial public figure and commentator Charlie Kirk. Over 400 young female students and dozens of non-millennial YWLS 2016 attendees showed up for Shapiro&#8217;s lecture on conservative thought.
After learning he would not be able to make it, Shapiro arranged for a Skype audience with the young activists. The young women were disappointed to find he would not be making it to the summit in person. Many of them had hoped for an autograph from him, and some fans even created signs expressing their excitement to hear him speak.
Nevertheless during his lecture, Shapiro&#8217;s young fans took to social media using hashtags like #YWLS2016, #YWLS, and #BenToYWLS. American Airlines, responsible for transporting Shapiro to Dallas in time for his lecture, received a lot of angry tweets from young women today.
Anna White, a 22-year-old graduate student from Washington State, began the widely used #BenToYWLS Twitter hashtag months ago in an attempt to encourage other young activists who would be attending the summit to voice their interest in having him speak, so that eventually the summit organizers would give in to the request to host him.
&#8220;At first, I was not sure that this movement would gain traction,&#8221; White told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I, along with a few others, began tweeting using this hashtag, in hopes he would be able to attend. The hashtag&#8217;s use dwindled for a while, but it began to pick up. I encouraged those I knew who were attending the YWLS to continue to use the hashtag. On May 2, we found out that the movement to bring Ben to the YWLS had been successful.&#8221;
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Me on seeing <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro">@benshapiro</a>: &#8220;I think I will faint. I&#8217;ve fainted before and this will be one of those times.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BenToYWLS?src=hash">#BenToYWLS</a>
&#8212; Anna White (@annaeleanor) <a href="https://twitter.com/annaeleanor/status/727307175278710785">May 3, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Kyle Foley, a TPUSA staff member, announced via Twitter that Shapiro&#8217;s full lecture on conservative thought will be posted online by tomorrow. Here is a video clip taken by a member of the audience:
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Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro">@benshapiro</a> for still speaking to us even though <a href="https://twitter.com/AmericanAir">@AmericanAir</a> sucks. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YWLS2016?src=hash">#YWLS2016</a> <a href="https://t.co/SPF0UlXa3t">pic.twitter.com/SPF0UlXa3t</a>
&#8212; Patrick Wool (@Patrick_Wool95) <a href="https://twitter.com/Patrick_Wool95/status/743166012221075457">June 15, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Students expressed overwhelming satisfaction at the lecture despite Shapiro not physically being there. As an attendee of the event myself, I saw no speaker received by the audience as enthusiastically as Shapiro was received by his fans there. Many of them sent emails to The Daily Wire with the hope of receiving his personal autograph by paper mail following the event. Shapiro&#8217;s lecture was followed by a 3 p.m. lecture at the YWLS event by former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina.
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Shapiro Addresses Hundreds of Young Women in Dallas Via Skype After American Airlines Cancels His Flight

At a campaign event in Carmel, Indiana on Monday, &#8203;Donald Trump accused Ted Cruz of being &#8220;really cruel&#8221; for supposedly ignoring his running mate Carly Fiorina when she fell at a campaign rally in Lafayette. 
&#8220;By the way, [Fiorina] fell off the stage,&#8221; Trump <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-ted-cruz-carly-fiorina-stage-2016-5">told the Carmel crowd</a>. &#8220;Did anybody see that? And Cruz didn&#8217;t do anything. Even I would&#8217;ve helped her, OK?&#8230; Wow, that&#8217;s really cruel. She just went down. She went down a long way. And she went down right in front of him and he just kept talking. That was a weird deal.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s a video that made the rounds from Raw Story of Fiorina&#8217;s fall and Cruz &#8220;ignor[ing] her&#8221;: 

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Watch Carly Fiorina do a face-plant off a stage while Ted Cruz ignores her <a href="https://t.co/LJqpNe2YLQ">https://t.co/LJqpNe2YLQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/2fvvaT3sEP">pic.twitter.com/2fvvaT3sEP</a>
&#8212; Raw Story (@RawStory) <a href="https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/726976935163777025">May 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
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But as <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/05/02/cruz-accused-of-ignoring-fiorina-after-she-does-face-plant-off-a-stage-but-new-video-angle-reveals-the-truth/">another video angle</a> shows, rather than being evidence of Cruz&#8217;s &#8220;cruelty,&#8221; the Texas senator simply didn&#8217;t see the fall, as he was busy shaking supporters&#8217; hands, and Fiorina managed to right herself quickly before her running mate realized what happened (incident starts around the 12:25 mark):

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H/t <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/05/02/cruz-accused-of-ignoring-fiorina-after-she-does-face-plant-off-a-stage-but-new-video-angle-reveals-the-truth/">The Blaze</a>

Fiorina Falls Off Stage. Trump Accuses Cruz of Cruelty. Here’s The Whole Story.

Ted Cruz

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has dominated the headlines since she was announced as Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s (R-TX) vice-president should be the GOP presidential nominee. Here are five things you need to know about her.
1. She&#8217;s an effective surrogate against both former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and real estate mogul Donald Trump.<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434672/carly-fiorina-ted-cruz-evaluating-new-gop-ticket"> </a><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434672/carly-fiorina-ted-cruz-evaluating-new-gop-ticket">National Review</a>&#8216;s Jim Geraghty writes that Fiorina can easily make mincemeat out of Clinton since she doesn&#8217;t have to fear being smeared as a sexist, and she has even eviscerated the feminism mantra that Clinton embraces.
&#8220;Do not let others define you,&#8221; Fiorina said. &#8220;Do not listen to anyone who says you have to vote a certain way or for a certain candidate because you&#8217;re a woman. That is not feminism. Feminism doesn&#8217;t shut down conversations or threaten women. It is not about ideology. It is not a weapon to wield against your political opponent. A feminist is a woman who lives the life she chooses and uses all her God-given gifts.&#8221;
Fiorina is also a solid attack dog against Trump, not only because she is an outsider like he is, but because Fiorina has proven to take Trump to task for his sexist and misogynist remarks towards women. When Trump mocked Fiorina&#8217;s face and offered a vague &#8220;apology&#8221; at the debate, Fiorina simply responded, &#8220;I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said.&#8221; Fiorina serves as a reminder that Trump&#8217;s abysmal numbers with women is going to doom him in a general election matchup against Clinton.
2. Fiorina is a breast cancer survivor. She was diagnosed with <a href="http://www.bustle.com/articles/111804-when-did-carly-fiorina-have-cancer-the-gop-candidate-fought-a-long-battle-to-get-to">stage II breast cancer</a> the day before she launched her Senate run in 2009, and Fiorina described it as &#8220;very aggressive&#8221; and she had to undergo chemotherapy and a bilateral masectomy&#8211;not to mention the sudden death of her stepdaughter Lori&#8211;during her Senate campaign. Not only does her ability to overcome cancer in the midst of her Senate campaign and her stepdaughter&#8217;s death show how tough she is, it also gives her a unique perspective on <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/422627/less-known-side-carly-fiorinas-life-jim-geraghty">Obamacare</a>:
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Later, after Obamacare was passed, the Health and Human Services Administration changed the protocol for breast cancer screening. They recommended that women get a mammogram every other year and that they not do self-examinations. The Obama administration had concluded that this change in protocol would minimize false alarms and cost. I remember being insulted when HHS justified these changes by saying the old protocol caused too much trauma and concern. Women are tough. We can handle it. I remember thinking that if I had followed this protocol, I would probably be dead. 
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Fiorina has also said it &#8220;terrifies&#8221; her that breast cancer survival rates in Britain and Canada are worse than in the United States because Britain and Canada don&#8217;t focus on prevention as much as the U.S. does.
3. Her record as HP CEO has drawn mixed reaction. One of the more controversial aspects of Fiorina&#8217;s record was her performance as HP&#8217;s CEO. <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/fiorinas-h-p-tenure-a-disputed-legacy-1444179445">The Wall Street Journal</a> had a lengthy piece about her tenure as CEO, and they explain that HP&#8217;s stock plummeted far below the company&#8217;s other competitors in the midst of the tech bust and that HP did not reach the 8.6 percent profit margin in 2003 that she promised when HP merged with Compaq. Fiorina also gambled that the tech industry was in a period of &#8220;slow growth and consolidation&#8221; in 2004, which resulted in IBM expanding and purchase other companies they may have otherwise gone to HP. Ultimately, Fiorina was fired because the company&#8217;s board of directors wanted her to de-centralize some her power as CEO, and she refused.
Yet those who were on the inside have a different perspective; former HP chief financial officer Bob Wayman felt that Fiorina was fired before the company reaped the benefits of the Compaq merger.
&#8220;If Carly had survived another six-to-nine months, I think she wouldn&#8217;t have been fired,&#8221; Wayman told the Journal.
Former HP board member Tom Perkins, who had voted oust Fiorina, is now a staunch supporter of hers.
&#8220;He [Mark Hurd, Fiorina&#8217;s successor] did a very good job of implementing the structure that Carly had put in place,&#8221; Mr. Perkins said. &#8220;He was more acceptable to the mass of Hewlett-Packard employees than Carly was. I mean, Carly was a glamour figure.&#8221;
4. She created a political ad that will forever live in infamy. One of the memorable moments of in her Senate run was an <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/07/404977168/-tbt-fiorinas-demon-sheep-went-down-in-political-ad-infamy">ad</a> she ran against one of her primary opponents, Tom Campbell, labeling him as a &#8220;FCINO&#8221;&#8211;fiscally conservative in name only&#8211;and illustrated it by portraying him as a demon sheep. It is an ad that will never be forgotten:
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Fiorina did win the primary, but lost in the general election to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA).
5. She is a fervent believer in simplifying the tax code. She <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/2150884/carly-fiorina-2016/">wrote</a> on Facebook:
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As anyone who has done business with the federal government knows, in the last six weeks of every year, every government agency spends every dime. They do that because they want to make sure the appropriations process is focused on the rate of increase for the following year &#8211; not what they actually need or whether they actually need to spend it. It&#8217;s time to move to zero-based budgeting and simplify the tax code.
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5 Things You Need to Know About Carly Fiorina

Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina was named as Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s (R-TX) vice president if he wins the GOP presidential nomination. After Cruz officially announced her as his choice, Fiorina sang onstage.
Cruz told the audience that Fiorina typically sings lullabies to his two little daughters, Caroline and Catherine, as well as texting them &#8220;heart and smiley-faced emoticons.&#8221;
That led to Fiorina breaking into song during her acceptance speech.
&#8220;I know two girls who I just adore,&#8221; Fiorina sang. &#8220;I am so happy I can see them more. Because we travel on the bus on the day, we get to play, we get to play.&#8221;
It was a moment where people could see the personal side of Cruz&#8217;s vice-president.
(h/t: <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/27/carly_fiorina_sings_lullaby_at_cruz_ticket_announcement.html">RealClearPolitics</a>)
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Fiorina Named Cruz’s VP Pick, Sings!

<a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?408778-1/ted-cruz-announces-carly-fiorina-running-mate">Announcing</a> Carly Fiorina as his vice-presidential running mate on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke before supporters in Indianapolis.
During his approximately half hour introduction, Cruz praised Fiorina&#8217;s status as the first woman to become a CEO of a Fortune 20 company when she headed HP.
Describing the contest for the GOP presidential nomination as a fight for the soul of the Republican Party and the future of America, Fiorina said Clinton and Trump amounted to &#8220;two sides of the same coin.&#8221; Despite Trump&#8217;s progression towards securing the threshold of 1,237 delegates, she said the campaign is worth fighting for.
&#8220;They&#8217;re both liberal, we know that,&#8221; said Fiorina of Clinton and Trump. Saying neither would &#8220;challenge the system,&#8221; Fiorina said of the two, &#8220;They are the system.&#8221;

&#8220;He is what he says he is. He is who he says he is,&#8221; said Fiorina of Cruz, indirectly invoking statements from Trump&#8217;s new campaign manager resembling Mitt Romney&#8217;s &#8220;etch-a-sketch&#8221; moment.

On the subject of the greater centralization of power within government, Fiorina declared, &#8220;power concentrated is power abused.&#8221; Describing the Constitution as a document composed &#8220;to restrain the concentration and the abuse of power,&#8221; Fiorina called for political realignment with the founding document&#8217;s purpose and the vision of The Framers.

&#8220;Our country is being taken away from us,&#8221; said Fiorina, describing political elites as unmaking the nation&#8217;s foundation. &#8220;We must take our country back,&#8221; added Fiorina to enthusiastic applause from the audience. 

Taking about thirty minutes to wrap up his introductory speech for Fiorina, media observers on Twitter took note of the delay. TV news coverage pulled away from the event to return later upon Fiorina&#8217;s entrance to the platform, given that she was kept backstage to preserve some element of surprise.

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Cruz always takes 30 minutes to give a 10 minute speech.
&#8212; jon gabriel (@exjon) <a href="https://twitter.com/exjon/status/725422829408112640">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Ted Cruz does not know when to shut up and sit down. He cannot seem to properly edit himself.
&#8212; Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) <a href="https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/725422397784989696">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Does he know this isn&#8217;t a filibuster?
&#8212; Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/725422748726603777">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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He&#8217;s still talking. This is a trainwreck.
&#8212; Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/725422395587174400">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReleaseCarly?src=hash">#ReleaseCarly</a>
&#8212; Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) <a href="https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/725422357544841217">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Persistent problem for Cruz: He fails to be succinct &amp; to-the-point in his campaign&#8217;s biggest moments. This is one of &#8217;em. Get her on stage.
&#8212; Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/725422058147033089">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Cruz really doesn&#8217;t know how to do press announcements
&#8212; Elizabeth Harrington (@LizWFB) <a href="https://twitter.com/LizWFB/status/725422096109690881">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Is he stalling because she isn&#8217;t there yet???
&#8212; Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) <a href="https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/725421904077688832">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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He&#8217;s totally stepping on Carly now.
&#8212; Matthew Continetti (@continetti) <a href="https://twitter.com/continetti/status/725421836889116672">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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. <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz">@tedcruz</a> announces <a href="https://twitter.com/CarlyFiorina">@CarlyFiorina</a> as his choice for running mate&#8230;.and then continues talking. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/anticlimactic?src=hash">#anticlimactic</a>
&#8212; Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/725421019956039680">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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