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Fiorina Launches Presidential Bid, Blasting Clinton

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Former technology executive Carly Fiorina is throwing her hat into the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

The political outsider launched her campaign Monday with an online video targeting Hillary Clinton for being a career politician.

"Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class. They believed that citizens and leaders needed to step forward," she says in the video.

The former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. is the first woman to join the crowded but diverse field of major GOP candidates seeking the nomination for 2016.

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Fiorina, 60, has long been a fierce critic of Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, whose potential to become the nation's first female president is a centerpiece of her political brand.

Fiorina recently told CBN's David Brody that Clinton won't be able to play the 'woman card' if she's chosen to be the GOP nominee.

She said her candidacy would force Clinton to talk about her record instead of appealing to voters to elect her just because she would be "the first woman president."

"Hillary Clinton will play that card unless she faces me in a general election. Hillary Clinton is banking so much on saying to the American people, 'I'm going to be the first woman president' or 'Republicans are waging a war on women' or playing the gender card in some way. If she faces me she can't do any of that," Fiorina told CBN News.

She also argues that Clinton has proven she lacks transparency on a number of fronts.

"I have a lot of admiration for Hillary Clinton, but she clearly is not trustworthy," Fiorina said in an interview Monday with ABC's "Good Morning America."

As proof, Fiorina cited the 2012 attack on an American embassy in Benghazi, Libya, her use of a private email server while secretary of state, and the foreign donations that came to the Clinton Foundation during that same time period.

Along with taking on Clinton, Fiorina's new campaign website states another motivation behind her run for the White House.

"Growing up, Carly's mom taught her an essential lesson: 'What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God,'" it says.

Fiorina's first public event after the announcement is scheduled for Tuesday in New York City, although she will campaign in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina by week's end.

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