Fiorina didn’t respond to the question either. She didn’t explain who General Soleimani was. She explained who the Quds force is though.
She also incorrectly stated that the Iran deal has been passed...technically it has enough support to pass, but it hasn’t been voted on.
Quds and Kurds sound similar. Once that was clarified, Trump should have known the significance of the Quds force because part of the bad Iran “deal” is how the (outrageous) $150B (that we are borrowing from China) might be used.
However, Hewitt’s question was about a rather obscure person and NOT the organization the he leads. Even if Trump knew about the Quds (and there was no indication that he knew about the Quds), the question was about a person.
It was a gotcha question.
Note also that in the time she took to get around to answering question an aide surely provided her with information on the organization and it’s leader.
No candidate for high office would EVER take a phone call fro the media without an aide present.