Stage backdrop collapses during Carly Fiorina campaign event in Texas
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 has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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