--- title: Republican Debate: Hillary Clinton Tweets Shade description: She seemed unfazed canonical: https://time.com/4092058/republican-debate-hillary-clinton-reaction/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-29T03:09:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:10:14.041Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Tweets Shade at Republican Debate og:description: She seemed unfazed. og:url: https://time.com/4092058/republican-debate-hillary-clinton-reaction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a4a825f094f7fbf/6988696f196cf49663038a2a/hillary1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Tweets Shade at Republican Debate twitter:description: She seemed unfazed. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a4a825f094f7fbf/6988696f196cf49663038a2a/hillary1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Tweets Shade at Republican Debate > Sponsored content. 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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, on Capitol Hill in Washington Oct. 22, 2015. Jonathan Ernst—Reuters  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Oct 29, 2015 3:09 AM UTC If her Twitter is any indication, Hillary Clinton was not too concerned about her possible Republican competition after Wednesday’s GOP debate. The frontrunner for the Democratic nominated tweeted a confident GIF from her Benghazi hearings in response to the Republican debate. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/659555444202070016) Candidates for the Republican nomination directed many of their barbs at Clinton as they vied to prove themselves as strong contenders against the Democratic frontrunner in the general election. Carly Fiorina even directly called out the former Secretary of State by declaring, “I am Hillary Clinton’s worst nightmare.” **Read Next:** [_Watch Hillary Clinton’s Most Entertaining Facial Expressions From the Benghazi Hearing_ ](http://time.com/4084229/benghazi-hearing-hillary-clinton-video/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4092058/republican-debate-hillary-clinton-reaction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4092058/republican-debate-hillary-clinton-reaction/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Tweets Shade at Republican Debate","datePublished":"2015-10-29T03:09:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:10:14.041Z","description":"She seemed unfazed","url":"https://time.com/4092058/republican-debate-hillary-clinton-reaction/","keywords":["Debates","Hillary Clinton","Benghazi","Carly Fiorina"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a4a825f094f7fbf/6988696f196cf49663038a2a/hillary1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a4a825f094f7fbf/6988696f196cf49663038a2a/hillary1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington","caption":"Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington","creditText":"Jonathan Ernst—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4092058/republican-debate-hillary-clinton-reaction/","name":"Hillary Clinton Tweets Shade at Republican Debate"}}]}] ```