Stage backdrop collapses during Carly Fiorina campaign event in Texas

Carly Fiorina.
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No one was injured Sunday when a curtain backdrop collapsed during a speech by Carly Fiorina at the National Women's Business Conference in San Antonio.

Several women ran to shield the Republican presidential candidate as frame piping and cloth fell to the ground, NBC 5 reports. Fiorina later joked about the incident, telling the audience: "Ladies, I'm plenty tough enough to be commander in chief." This was Fiorina's first campaign stop in Texas.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.