Carly Fiorina is laughing off the backlash to her Iowa football tweet

Carly Fiorina
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Like many of us, Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina sat down on New Year's Day to watch some college football. The Stanford University alumna joked about the Rose Bowl on Twitter, suggesting she'd root against her alma mater in favor of supporting Iowa, an early voting state:

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.