Carly Fiorina wants to make one thing clear: just because she is losing in the polls does not mean she has lost hope for Republican triumph in California.

Fiorina, who visited a synagogue Sunday to appeal to Jewish voters, said Sunday she is prepared for the state's voters to "make up their own minds" and make national news on Nov. 2 by electing her over three-term incumbent Barbara Boxer.

A recent poll by the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles Times showed Boxer ahead of Fiorina by 50 percent to 42 percent.

On Sunday morning the candidates appeared on "Al Punto," a television show on the Spanish-language channel Univision.

Boxer later attended a rally in Van Nuys with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, attorney general candidate Kamala Harris and lieutenant attorney general candidate Gavin Newsom.

She once again criticized Fiorina's record as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, where 30,000 jobs were outsourced under her leadership.

"I'm not interested in creating jobs in India," she said. "I want to create them in Indio, Irvine and Inglewood."

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