ms. o'neil back to you for a moment. curious what is your assessment on why it is that in america, which we have a woman who is ambassador to the united nations, we've had women in very high positions of authority in the national government, secretary of state for example, two of them. why is it that you believe that these women who are in these positions can't persuade the other elected officials to move forward on some of the issues you've mentioned for example wage inequality? >> well i'm very sorry to say but we have a political party which is extremely powerful and unbelievably well funded by industrialists like the coach brotherkochbrothers in this cou. they have fought the violence against women act, three are currently bottling up legislation, three are absolutely opposed to an increase in the minimum wage even though two-thirds of minimum wage workers in the united states are women. so an increase in the minimum wage would dramatically reduce the wage gap. so time after time after time the republican party has s

ms. fiorina: they know what it is to be promised something and delivered nothing. tip o'neill once famously remarked that all politics is local. actually, i think politics is personal. i think people vote based on their own lives, their own experiences, their own beliefs, their hopes, their dreams. if we want to defeat donald trump, we cannot turn to the establishment was again and ask them to guide the citizenry to the right answer. [applause] ms. fiorina: if we want to defeat donald trump, we must feed him at the ballot walks by offering citizens conservative solutions to problems in their own lives. [applause] ms. fiorina: we must remember who we are. these are pivotal and perilous times in our nation's history and it is precisely at these kinds of times that we must put our faith in a system that our founders created. ours was intended to be a citizen government. it is technology, actually, that gives us the tools to deliver government. there are no more excuses. we actually can allow citizens to see every regulation before it actually passes and we can control and gain co