"Who knows what the future will bring," Carly Fiorina said. | Getty Fiorina 'certainly looking' at 2018 Virginia Senate run

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is considering challenging Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine in 2018.

"Look, I'm certainly looking at that opportunity," she said on John Fredericks' radio show on Monday, as CNN reported . "It's a little early to be making that decision, we're two weeks into a new administration."


Fiorina, who was briefly Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s running mate, said the race against Kaine would be “very, very tough.” Kaine defeated former governor and senator George Allen by 6 points in 2012.

Virginia Republicans identified Fiorina as a possible candidate for Kaine’s seat in a special election if he had won the vice presidency.

“It’s something she’s taking a very strong look at,” a Virginia GOP operative told Politico before the election. “She’s not just name ID, she’s got serious definition. People have seen her, they know what she can do.”

Reps. Rob Wittman Dave Brat and Barbara Comstock, former Gov. Jim Gilmore and state Del. James Massie are all considered possible candidates. Conservative pundit Laura Ingraham has also expressed interest .

Fiorina struggled to gain traction in the presidential race, finishing seventh in the Iowa caucuses with less than 2 percent of the vote. She dropped out of the race after finishing seventh in the New Hampshire primary with 4 percent of the vote.

She also ran for Senate in 2010 in California, losing to incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer by double digits despite 2010 being a strong year for Republicans nationwide.

Fiorina campaigned heavily for down-ballot candidates across Virginia in 2016.

"Who knows what the future will bring," she said, "but I look forward to continuing to talk to the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia about things that we agree on, things that we may not yet know we agree on — most people are pragmatic, most people have a lot of common sense."