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Before the primetime debate they were already planning. they said that 5:00 p.m. debate would be especially for all the candidates who wouldnt make the cut of the top ten on the main stage later that night. quote, due to the overwhelming interest in the fox news debate and in a concerted effort to include and accommodate the now 16 republican candidate field, the largest in modern political history, fox news is expanding participation in the 5:00 p.m. debate to all declared candidates. and that ...

They said that 5:00 p.m. debate would be especially for all the candidates who wouldnt make the cut of the top ten on the main stage later that night. quote, due to the overwhelming interest in the fox news debate and in a concerted effort to include and accommodate the now 16 republican candidate field, the largest in modern political history, fox news is expanding participation in the 5:00 p.m. debate to all declared candidates. and that announcement from fox after all that pressure they got a...

Up being worth 900 points and 800 more for making it to the four sanctioned gop debates, although they were each undercard debates. some of our candidates have drafted five candidates. the current standings, michael steele leads with 4,500 points, followed closely by jess mcintosh, and joy reed and sam seder, and josh barrow with 2200 points. joining me now, josh barrow, who somehow managed to draft three people who never got in the race, now hanging his hopes on ted cruz and carly fiorina. also...

He joins me as he does every monday. i guess people wont be that surprised with lindsey graham dropping out. he was not polling high at all, and he had been in the undercard debates, right? >> right. he had been in the undercard debates. but he was hilarious and awesome and great in the undercard debates because he did not care. he was not afraid to say stuff. he was not afraid to throw it out there. and was absolutely entertaining and absolutely good. so the nation mourns the loss of undercard ...

Will suspend his 2016 presidential bid. he struggled to gain extraction since starting his campaign despite being widely seen as several of the undercard debates. he ran for one reason in particular and thats the fight as he sees it against radical islam. its been his strong conviction throughout the course of this campaign and that was the main reason he wanted to be on that stage so somebody could say the thing he was saying. bill: he says im us spending my campaign but never my commitment to ...

Lindsey graham is the fourth candidate to end his run for the white house. joining rick perry and scott walker and bobby jindal. lets discuss more with the author of the book "too dumb to fail"." matt lewis is a a senior contribute at the daily call r. peter beinart is joining us. the undercard debates will now be unwatchable. >> they need to end it today. >> why? >> the only thing that made it redeeming at all was lindsey graham. both because he was funny, and also because he was so passionate ...

So to you first. according to your blog and fantasy football of politics, who should be dropping out? >> i think its a lot of the guys like lindsey graham. someone who is in the establishment vein and worried about the state of the party. if you watched the undercard debate, he was trying to be the voice of reason saying trump isnt a good look for the party. >> hes not the only one. hes done pretty well in the undercard debates. >> another one we said is rand paul should be getting out of the ra...

Through at those undercard debates. if youre not on the big stage its like youre not competing. and i know its tough for the networks to come up with criteria that is outside of the polls. but, boy, to me it just seems so strange that carson and trump because they are doing well in the polls get to be on the main stage but a governor like christie or a former governor like mike huckabee getting pushed to the sidelines. maybe randomly pick the candidates and maybe add something into the criteria ...

Anything on the undercard. to actually get back into the fight. >> this is something i agree with donald trump on. i think there has to be a winnowing of this process, there have been three debates now and three undercard debates. >> i will point out -- >> tweeted out that he thinks that christie and huckabee. >> christie and huckabee were at 20%, he ma i not be tweeting about, he doesnt see them as threats right now. i think look, have been campaigning for six months, if theyre at 0% or 1% of t...

There well certainly start to see the field whittle down. obviously the undercard debates with some of those lower-tier candidates like bobby jindal, george pataki. theyre just not rising in the polls and raising money. you could easily start to see them back out of the race. but yeah, last night, it was a three-hour marathon debate. you saw the field really going after trump this time, compared to the first debate where folks sat back. you saw fiorina getting out early. and, you know, questioni...