Carly Fiorina Responds to Attacks on Faith: Its unfortunate when people throw stones at anyone.

No Republican has seen bigger post-debate bounce than Carly Fiorina. Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. No one needs to question or tell me about my faith. Ive been through some hard times in my life. Ive battled cancer. Weve lost a child to the demons of addiction. I understand in deeply personal terms that it was my personal relationship with Jesus Christ that saved me that saved my family.   Gallup polling out today compares views of the Republican contenders before and after the Aug. 6 Fox News debate in Cleveland. Favorable views of Fiorina are up an eye-popping 15 points 3 points more than the two other debate winners Ben Carson and John Kasich.

You know all of my life I have been under estimated. I started as a secretary and have learned over and over and over again that the conventional wisdom is so often wrong. So I went into the debate thinking this was an opportunity. An opportunity to introduce myself to Republican people" Fiorina said in an interview on Power Play with Chris Stirewalt." It was an opportunity I was going to take full advantage of."

But there were others who hoped for (and needed) standout showings. They saw sentiment collapse. Gallup shows Rand Paul Rick Perry Rick Santorum and Lindsey Graham took double-digit nosedives. Other mostly better-known candidates saw little change. Donald Trump (17 percent net favorability) and Jeb Bush (27 percent net favorability) were essentially unchanged. Fiorina shot past Trump and Bush to a net score of 37 percent but along the way earned the enmity of Trump whom she whacked for his post-debate comments. Trump has made attacking Fiorina a standard part of his speeches and interviews since then often complaining about the sound of her voice. Were not actually solving problems when we just hurl insults each others way" Fiorina said in the interview. I think we need a leader who will actually honor citizens by re-engaging them in the political process and in their government…" The poll shows Fiorina still has room to grow. After the debate an all-time high of 51 percent of Republicans expressed familiarity with her name. That brings her near top-tier contender Scott Walker who is still a relative unknown to 40 percent of his party. But she is still less known by 20 points than Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio 30 points less than Bush and 40 points less than Trump. It was my personal relationship with Jesus Christ that saved me In her interview Fiorina also responded to those who have questioned her faith and resolve to fight Islamist militants because she once spoke in praise of the enlightenment of the medieval Ottoman Empire:

No one needs to question or tell me about my faith. Ive been through some hard times in my life. Ive battled cancer. Weve lost a child to the demons of addiction. I understand in deeply personal terms that it was my personal relationship with Jesus Christ that saved me that saved my family.

So its unfortunate when people throw stones at anyone but politics has sort of become that hasnt it? And we have candidates who encourage it."