Noooooooooo, not me, said Fioina. Nooooooooooo, I wouldn’t do that. I have been scheduled to do this for months.


After a few more questions, she couldn’t take the heat so she left the kitchen.


“All right, thank you, everyone,” an aide interjected after about 11 minutes.

A reporter tried to pose another question. But Ms. Fiorina demurred.

“Thanks, you guys — I have a lunch to go to,” she said, carefully stepping across the cables stretching to the satellite trucks that had arrived to record Mrs. Clinton’s appearance inside the hotel.