Candidates, Republicans to ABC: Let Fiorina in

But the former Hewlett-Packard CEO is demanding she be allowed to participate in the upcoming debate Saturday, and many Republicans, including her rival candidates, say ABC News should bend its rules and let her in. The network determined that in order to merit a lectern on stage, candidates had to either place in the top six in an average of New Hampshire primary polls selected by ABC News; place in the top six in an average of national polls chosen by the network; or place in the top three in the Iowa caucuses. “She has worked hard, won a diligent campaign”, Cruz was quoted as saying.

A spokesperson for ABC News told Boston.com Thursday that the criteria still stands and the network officially unveiled its Fiorina-less candidate lineup Thursday evening.

“.@abcnews should put @CarlyFiorina in the new hampshire debate.she came in ahead of kasich and christie”. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Florida).

New Hampshire residents will cast their ballots in the first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday. He accused the senator of being a candidate governed by talking points – then pounced when the senator played into his hands by repeating multiple times what appeared to be a planned response to criticisms about his qualifications. That is, perhaps, the most concise way of describing Fiorina’s ground game: vaguely inspiring and generally not embarrassing, except for the fact that her campaign is rapidly losing ground and a lot of her statements are highly misleading.

And Fiorina herself wrote an open letter to the Republican National Committee on Wednesday that spelled out her frustration with the process.

“Some people were disappointed that I didn’t go into the debate”, Trump said of his second-place finish.

At a Heritage Foundation event, Fiorina, 61, said when she was 8 years old her mother, who was also her Sunday school teacher, gave her a plaque that said: “What you are is God’s gift to you and what you make of yourself is your gift to God”. “Don’t exclude only woman”, former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney tweeted.

“Hey ABC: put Carly Fiorina on the debate stage!” “More importantly, what does that say to the voters of New Hampshire who actually think it’s their job to pick a president?” I’m not a billionaire like Donald Trump, who’s made his millions buying people on the inside of the establishment. Kelly Ayotte’s water, thinking it was her water. “Americans deserve to hear from every candidate”, Carson tweeted. She earned one delegate in that contest, which is more than Christie, who got none. Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and Sen.

Post-Iowa, polls show Trump remains the party’s front-runner in New Hampshire, with 30 percent of likely primary voters.

For starters, the field has been winnowed down from 11 candidates-12 if you count the almost invisible campaign of former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore-down to eight.