Republicans woo Clinton supporters

Washington: Republican John McCain has enlisted the help of Carly Fiorina, once the most powerful businesswoman in the United States, to get women behind his campaign for the White House.

Fiorina empathised with Hillary Clinton's experience when she took questions from across the country during a McCain "virtual town-hall meeting".

"Having started as a secretary and eventually become a chief-executive officer, I not only have great admiration and respect for Hillary Clinton and her candidacy and her leadership, but I also have great empathy, I must tell you, for what she went through," Fiorina said.

"I also believe though, if we are striving for a gender-blind, colour-blind society, that we really ought to be focused on the person that we think will make the right judgments, the right decisions and have the right positions."

That person is John McCain, she said.