Carly Fiorina appears to be pretty talented at this whole being a politician thing.
The former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2016 presidential contender made her first appearance on a network late night television show Wednesday morning and performed spectacularly, engaging in witty banter and charming host Seth Meyers.
“Everything about me is different,” Fiorina said on NBC’s “Late Night” while trying to distinguish herself from the other 2016 Republican contenders. “For one, I’m on your show,” she quipped.
“My experience set is different,” she continued. “I’m not a professional politician. I’ve done different things. I run charities, I run businesses, I started as a secretary.”
“By the way, I look a little different, too,” she joked.
Fiorina also took shots at presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
“I started with Hillary in that video because I think, honestly, there is a professional political class in this party,” she said. “There are Republicans who are in it, and there are Democrats who is are in it. But Hillary Clinton is kind of the personification of a professional political class. Doesn’t mean she’s a bad person, it’s just she’s been in politics all her life, and a lot of people are tired of that.”
Defending her lack of political experience, Fiorina said she didn’t know “when we got used to this idea that we needed a professional political class.”
“Ours was intended to be a citizen government by, for and of the people,” she said, before joking: “So honestly if people think Jon Stewart could run for president, I guess maybe I could to.”