2016: Clinton vs. Fiorina

[kyc0705]

Imagine that Hillary Clinton captures the Democratic nomination, as she has in real life, but the GOP ends up picking Carly Fiorina (who was leading/tied for first in a few primary polls last year, after a particularly strong performance in a Republican debate).

Who would they choose as their running mates? What would the gender dynamics of the election look like with two female candidates? Who would win?

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

I think that this would be the map. She wouldn't overperform in the less-educated Trump-friendly areas which we have been seeing, but she also wouldn't be floundering as much in VA/CO/NC.

[Vosem]

Fiorina has enough of a checkered background that she would probably still be losing, and barely doing any better than Trump. Counterintuitively, I could see downballot Republicans doing worse, because it's not that hard to distance yourself from Trump for the right kind of politician, but distancing from Fiorina would've been completely impossible.

[Maxwell]

Fiorina would be losing by quite a bit - Trump at least has some level of charisma with his people. Fiorina is just horrible - plus i agree wiht vosem she'd sink the Republicans downballot even harder.

[Kingpoleon]

275: Hillary Clinton/Sherrod Brown - 48.2%
263: Carly Fiorina/Mitch Daniels - 48.1%