Carly Fiorina will most likely be excluded from the GOP debate Saturday night.
As of now, only three of the Republican presidential candidates have a spot secured for them at the debate, according to the criteria released Tuesday by CBS, which will host the event.
Those candidates are national front-runner Donald Trump, Iowa caucus winner Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
The criteria allow multiple ways for candidates to make it on stage for the event on Saturday, but they specifically state that the top three out of the Iowa caucuses are guaranteed spots. Cruz won the caucuses last week, Trump came in second and Rubio third.
CBS’s criteria also grant spots to candidates who: place in the top five of national polls; place in the top five of South Carolina polls; or receive at least 3 percent support in national, New Hampshire, Iowa or South Carolina polls.
Spots are also guaranteed to the top five candidates coming out of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night.
This all appears likely to exclude Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who is the only nationally-known candidate to have been excluded from the last GOP debate.
Fiorina is currently eighth on the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings.
