On “The Kelly File” Monday night, Carly Fiorina discussed a series of recent reports about her mismanagement of campaign funds, as well as questionable donations from her charitable foundation — but instead of considering those reports to be legitimate inquiries about a presidential candidate, she claimed they were evidence that liberals fear her because “I am a conservative woman.”

“There are a lot of liberals who find me kind of scary right now, because I am doing really well in the polls and — horror of horrors — I am a conservative woman,” she said.

She pointed to her current success in the polls, including head-to-head ones with Hillary Clinton, as the reason