Can Christie pull a Fiorina at undercard debate?

Make no mistake: getting bumped from the primetime debate is bad news for a Republican presidential campaign. The undercard debate, to which Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee have been relegated next week, serves mainly to reinforce the perception that its participants are losers.

Christie and Huckabee are also the first two primetime debaters to fall from the main line-up, while Lindsey Graham and George Pataki have joined Jim Gilmore in not even qualifying for the undercard event. All of these candidates are struggling and this downward movement will have people asking why they are even still running.