So there’s your final six: Trump, Carson, Rubio, Cruz, and maybe—just maybe—Fiorina and Christie.For a variety of reasons Last dismisses Mike Huckabee, John Katich, Rand Paul and the entire undercard as no longer in contention. And he adds:
And as for Bush? Jeb’s dead, baby. Jeb’s dead.What people will remember about tonight's debate is that every pundit with an opinion and a place to post it believes cable network CNBC did a miserable job of staging and moderating the debate. The candidates complained on-air, simply refusing to "play nice" in the face of a whole series of gotcha questions from the moderators.
Mollie Hemingway documented at The Federalist, two days before it happened, that John Harwood was a totally biased liberal inappropriate to moderate a GOP debate. She is entitled to say "I told you so" to RNC head Reince Priebus, although her column appeared too late for him to demand a personnel change.
