--- title: Carly Fiorina "Very Satisfied" With GOP Debate Performance description: Carly Fiorina had a strong showing at the Republican debate on CNN Wednesday night, and she knows it canonical: https://time.com/4038220/carly-fiorina-republican-debate-performance/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-17T12:58:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:01:26.356Z article:section: Politics og:title: Carly Fiorina "Very Satisfied" With GOP Debate Performance og:description: Carly Fiorina had a strong showing at the Republican debate on CNN Wednesday night, and she knows it og:url: https://time.com/4038220/carly-fiorina-republican-debate-performance/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Carly Fiorina "Very Satisfied" With GOP Debate Performance twitter:description: Carly Fiorina had a strong showing at the Republican debate on CNN Wednesday night, and she knows it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Carly Fiorina "Very Satisfied" With GOP Debate Performance ## Video: CNN 2016 Presidential Debate: Carly Fiorina's Best Moments [Watch (HLS stream): CNN 2016 Presidential Debate: Carly Fiorina's Best Moments](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dAR7eWBi.m3u8) (2:17)  _Published 2015-09-17. CNN 2016 Presidential Debate: Carly Fiorina's Best Moments_  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 17, 2015 12:58 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 17, 2015 12:58 PM UTC Carly Fiorina had a strong showing at the Republican debate on CNN Wednesday night, and she knows it. “I was very satisfied,” Fiorina[ told ABC’s Good Morning America](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/carly-fiorina-satisfied-gop-debate/story?id=33825017) of her performance. “When I went into the debate, almost half the audience didn’t know my name, and I introduced myself successfully.” During the debate, Fiorina laid out detailed foreign policy visions, made an impassioned speech against Planned Parenthood and [sparred with Donald Trump](http://time.com/4037757/donald-trump-carly-fiorina-republican-debate/?xid=homepage) over comments he had made about her looks. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO had worked her way into the primetime slot after surging in the polls following her first performance in the Fox undercard debate in August. 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