guacamole in imy tank top on thursday night. you re going to be eating your guacamole in a tank top? yep. might as well right? getting visual. to your question this does allow the republicans who end up making this undercard debate an ability to talk about something other than donald trump. and so that actually might be a benefit for them. the downside is that this debate process and how you end up getting the ten to get in this first debate really could be seen as a winnowing process where the candidates left out in the cold that aren t on that main debate stage see their visibility go down. they end up seeing their fund-raising go down. so it remains to be seen on whether they can get back into the conversation particularly for the debates ahead. all right. so mark thank you very much. jordan, thank you too on the campaign trail. mark murray and jordan frazier.
were to guess i would suggest it happened this way, the republican national committee wants that field winnowed. they know it s too big and the longer it goes on with 15 or 16 or 17 candidates, the more negative attacks you ll have candidate against candidates. why did they want to reduce the number of debates? they believe mitt romney was weakened by the debate process in 2012 when many of those candidates survived for a long time and attacked romney pretty intensely for months and months. they wanted to prevent that this time. they wanted to winnow the field but they didn t want to do it because the committee would get the blame for excluding candidates, so instead they said to the networks, you come up with a process. it s okay. whatever you do we ll rubber stamp, it s all right. the networks, of course, also didn t want to make the decision to exclude candidates. so that s how they picked the polling process because they can blame it on the polls. americans love precision. they lov
negative attacks you ll have candidate against candidates. why did they want to reduce the number of debates? they believe mitt romney was weakened by the debate process in 2012 when many of those candidates survived for a long time and attacked romney pretty intensely for months and months. they wanted to prevent that this time. they wanted to winnow the field but they didn t want to do it because the committee would get the blame for excluding candidates, so instead they said to the networks, you come up with a process. it s okay. whatever you do we ll rubber stamp, it s all right. the networks, of course, also didn t want to make the decision to exclude candidates. so that s how they picked the polling process because they can blame it on the polls. americans love precision. they love numbers, and that s what the polls present people with. the problem is, anybody who understands polling, the numbers
i don t think that it hurts. i think that donald trump and the trum name isdonald trump name is a national brand name. it s fair to say that donald trump speaks for donald trump. i don t think that it has anything to do with the republican party. i think that all of them speak for themselves. when we get a nominee, i know that we re analyzing week by week but we re going to have a nominee by the end of march and april. you have it in april, may, june, july and i just think that those months are like years, and i just don t see it. i think that both sides are going to have nominees that are going to speak for the party. right now none of them peak sprspeak for the party. i am keeping this tape because you re predicting a quick nomination and ending in march. i think that it will. let me ask you about the debate process. we now have the scramble of
anymore. he is gaffe proof. they like the fact he ll say anything. they like the fact he ll turn to these guys who are kritd sizing him and deck them. that is going help him. i m not saying he s going to necessarily go up in the polls. he may because he s taking it so lightly go down. but the idea that he s not going to be in this race at least to the republican convention a year from now i think is wrong. i don t see any reason for him to drop out. he obviously has plenty of money and this is a transformative event in this race. let s talk about the guy whose not who is complaining he s not in the debate. mark everson. what s your take on the debate process so far? he should be filing with fox news. they are running this primary. after 2012 a lot of republicans thought well that fox primary was so messy. they didn t see anything. this is is being literally