process he alienated himself and if you take a step back and you look at what he was trying to do, he was fighting for the future direction of the republican party, but i think as we've seen it's become more clear that the anti-trump voices, the room for those types of voices has become much more difficult at the national level. so i think it is unclear where he goes from here. a lot of people really turned off by donald trump and we'll see what he tries to do next. >> we will see in a few minutes and we'll have live coverage of that coming up. david, let me get back to you. do you expect that nikki haley and ron desantis will try to reach out to christie's voters during tonight's republican presidential debate right here on cnn? >> you know, that's such a good question, wolf. it puts them in a bit of a box. nikki haley is a natural place for a lot of christie supporters