Carly Fiorina talks about her chances of beating Hillary Clinton on 'The Kelly File.' Fiorina: 'I'm distinctly horrifying to liberals'

Carly Fiorina says she thinks she is "distinctly horrifying to liberals" because of the prospect that she could beat Hillary Clinton in a general election, hours after a poll was released showing her besting the Democratic front-runner in a hypothetical general election match-up in Iowa.

During an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly on her Monday night show, Fiorina responded after Kelly read part of a New York Times story from last week in which one woman remarked of the former Hewlett-Packard executive that, "It’s so weird — she looks like one of us, but she’s not."


"Look, we know that most of the media is very liberal. We know that liberal women have trouble accepting that there are many, many women who don't agree with them," Fiorina declared. "And in fact, it's liberal women, unfortunately, who believe that unless you follow their orthodoxy — [MSNBC's] Rachel Maddow is one, but Hillary Clinton is one, as well."

Fiorina then recalled that Clinton, campaigning in Iowa for Democratic senatorial candidate Bruce Braley last year, "went through her litany of liberal orthodoxy" on GOP candidate Joni Ernst, of whom she said, "It's not enough to be a woman."

"You have to be committed to expand rights and opportunities for all women," Clinton added.

According to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll out Monday, Fiorina led Clinton 52 percent to 38 percent in a hypothetical match-up.

"Actually, note to Democrat Party: We're half the nation. And so our views differ, just like men's views differ," Fiorina said. "And yes, I think I am distinctly horrifying to liberals that I am a conservative woman who right now, head-to-head, beats Hillary Clinton soundly."

