Carly Fiorina vs. Tim Kaine in Virginia Senate Race?

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA -- Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina could be edging closer to making a decision on a Senate run against Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine in Virginia. Fiorina, a resident of the Mason Neck area in Fairfax County for the past five years, was asked about a possible run this week during an interview on a radio show.

She didn't rule out a run, when asked: "Look, I'm certainly looking at that opportunity," she said on the John Fredericks Show. "It's a little early to be making that decision. We're two weeks into a new administration.”

"Who knows what the future will bring,” she said. "But I look forward to continuing to talk to the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia about things that we agree on, things that we may not yet know we agree on — most people are pragmatic, most people have a lot of common sense."

Her comments touched off a media frenzy, with CNN first reporting on the possibility of a campaign. A former CEO of Hewlett Packard, Fiorina, 62, ran for the White House last year and lost in a crowded primary battle among fellow Republicans. In a Senate run in 2010 in California against incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer, Fiorina spent more than $21 million, ultimately losing to Boxer, getting 42 percent of the vote.

Fiorina moved to Virginia in 2011 with her husband Frank, after she lost the Senate campaign in California, purchasing a $6 million mansion in Lorton on 5 acres. In 2012, Alexandria-based Good360 (formerly Gifts in Kind International), a nonprofit that runs an online donation marketplace, announced that Fiorina was taking on the role of chairman of the group's board of directors.

Reps. Rob Wittman, Dave Brat and Barbara Comstock, former Gov. Jim Gilmore and state Del. James Massie are all also considered possible candidates, Politico reported. Conservative pundit Laura Ingraham has also expressed interest.

In November, in an article in The Washington Post, Norman Leahy opined that Comstock (R-10th) who also makes her home in Fairfax County, in McLean, and who won a second term in November in an area that did not vote for Donald Trump for president, might be a better candidate for Republicans, if she is interested: Fiorina, he wrote, "carries both the baggage of failure, and a whiff of carpetbagging. Not exactly the stuff of which successful statewide campaigns are made," while Comstock, he said, is "a proven winner in vote rich Northern Virginia and is hedged against a possible Trump debacle."

Comstock has come out against some of both candidate and President's Trump's pronouncements, publicly disagreeing with him on immigration issues and a hiring freeze on federal employees.

PHOTO of Carly Fiorina courtesy of @CarlyFiorina