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That debate performance led to a temporary lift in her plo numbers. they've still -- they've since collapsed again anyway. but one of the other interesting dynamics on thursday night will be that carly fiorina, having been to the main stage by virtue of an assist by news executives at cnn once upon a time, she will now once again be relegated back to the kids' table. so carly fiorina also did not make the main stage for this next debate thursday night. she'll be at the kids' table along with rick santorum and mike huckabee. and she would have been there with rand paul if he deigned to show up....

Cnn/wmur poll. christie is fighting jeb bush and marco rubio. all of them lagging way behind donald trump. cnn's phil mattingly joins us live from new hampshire. christie has now branched out into iowa. still, though, very focused on new hampshire. >> reporter: that's right. no question new hampshire is really do or die for his campaign. in a little under two hours the room behind me will be packed for chris christie's favorite platform, the town hall. this will be the third of his nine events over the course of four days in new hampshire. it's largely credited with momentum. it has really g...

Especially since we are waiting to see what donald trump and the camp will have to say about this editorial from the union leader out of new hampshire. now we are hearing from him whachlt are they saying? >> now we are. yes. donald trump gave an interview with wmur channel 9, the big main news station up there in new hampshire. trump telling that station a couple things. first of all, he said the union leader attacking him in his editorial, he said it is dishonest, it is because the publisher had begged him, donald trump, to advertise in the union leader. trump says he refused. that is what th...

Away from the iowa caucuses. so i don't know if we'll necessarily see another republican drop out. but given all the developments in the past week, of course the shootings in san bernardino, you look at donald trump's rise in the polls, one story that's been kind of forgotten, and that is that ben carson has been coming down. as you mentioned, 5% in that cnn/wmur new hampshire poll. there's also a new national "usa today"/suffolk poll that had him at 10%. even when he was in the 20s and high teens. it is hard to pinpoint what actually ended up causing carson to come down but i would say it's c...

Overseas. >> trump is standing by his words, insisting to critics he's not a bigot. he's just responding to an obvious threat. and repeating, again, that if the gop is not fair to him, he could run as an independent. all this just six days ahead of the last republican debate of the year. right here on cnn. let's begin our coverage with cnn political reporter sara murray, live in washington. sara, what have you got? >> good morning, chris. that's right. amid outrage on both sides of the aisle from donald trump's proposal and his threats to run as an independent, we're also getting another data ...