Fiorina debate notes left behind in hotel printer

Fiorina speaks. (Photo: John Minchillo/AP)

Carly Fiorina stood out at the first nationally televised Republican presidential debate of the 2016 election cycle in Cleveland on Thursday, leading many political observers to declare that the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive won it hands down.

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“I think Carly Fiorina clearly won this debate,” Fox News’ Brit Hume concluded after the 5 p.m. event.

“Carly Fiorina I think won the early debate pretty decisively,” Bill O'Reilly said.

“Carly Fiorina ran away with it,” conservative radio host Laura Ingraham declared.

But before the debate, the Fiorina campaign appeared to make what could have been a costly flub, leaving a page from her debate notes behind in the hotel printer.

Sergio Gor, a spokesman for Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, tweeted a photo of what were then-unattributed prepared remarks.

Luckily, Fiorina seemed to have it memorized.

“Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lies about emails,” Fiorina said in her closing statement. “She is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party’s frontrunner — 2016 is going to be a fight between conservatism and a Democrat party that is undermining the very character of this nation. We need a nominee who is going to throw every punch, not pull punches, and someone who cannot stumble before he even gets into the ring.”