huckabee or even a rick santorum, and somebody who has won the state before, you might say, hey, look, this could break for me at the end, and if people decide to abandon trump for instance, and carson is slipping, maybe that is ultimately that is something that could benefit me, and if you are mike huckabee, that is what you are having run through your head that the core evangelical base may show up at the the last minute. and thank you, sara. i want to bring in jeff zeleny, and show the pictures from a moment ago of senator marco rubio doing his walk through there in the auditorium here at the venetian here in las vegas. jeff, can you talk a little bit about marco rubio, a really what is at stake for him tonight? he is trying to draw some contrast between himself and ted cruz who is surge manage the polls. he is trying to draw some contrast on the national securit
it is wearing out, but i am making great progress. are you going to be up there with the cane? i only need it with long walks. but i are will be fine. okay. good luck. thank you. and jeff zeleny just spoke to mike huckabee. thank you, that is former arkansas governor mike huckabee who just arrived for the debate, and he has leg surgery in recent weeks, and walking with the cane, and we asked him about that, and he said that he is in good spirits and one of the four candidates in the undercard debate that will begin with the main stage of the nine candidate debate, and this afternoon throughout the course of the afternoon here, all of the candidates will be coming through for a little bit of the walk through for the stage and the lay of the land here, and this is a critical time for all of the candidates, and governor huckabee included.
night for them. sarah, what are you seeing? well, that is right, brianna, and you can see mike huckabee in here, and look, it is a stressful night nfor the candidates. they are coming up here, and it is an audience, and a big platform, so they don t want to take any chances, so they go to reconfirming how the debate rules work, and even to looking at the light that warns you to where the restrooms r and they want to go over this area for a while. we saw marco rubio here, and he asked a number of questions. but for some candidates, you want to skip it all together, because you don t want to psyche yourself out of such a big moment. but mike huckabee is going over
he has been on the main stage for some of the debates, but this time, he did not make the cut because of the polling. so it is a critical moment for governor huckabee and all of the candidates tonight, brianna. thank you, jeff zeleny, inside of the venetian, and we are gearing up for the debate, the final debate, republican presidential debate of 2015. i want to look at the live pictures there, and that is mike huckabee, a former arkansas governor and somebody who just lost his communications drirectr which has left a lot of speculation ongoing about what that means for the future of the campaign. especially as he is going to be participate manage the undercard debate, and he struggled to get himself to the main stage. i want to go now to sarah murray who is inside of, and she is there inside of the auditorium there in the venetian where these walk-throughs, the candidates are having a chance of a little bit of the lay of the land for what is a huge
this is different. and you cannot and i m from southern california, and you cannot underestimate the effects of what happened in san bernardino. this is a neighboring community and it is an hour and a half drive from los angeles. i think it is something that is permeating the consciousness, and that it is hitting them very close to home as they are making the decisions as well. ashleigh, and mike, thank you so much. i know that we will go to jeff zeleny, and christina, can you tell me where we are headed? all right. ok okay. we are going to jeff zeleny, and he is our senior washington correspondent, and he just spoke to mike huckabee, and obviously a republican presidential candidate who is going to be here tonight for the cnn debate for the undercard debate. jeff, what did you lerp? well, i think it is going to be an interesting evening to be sure. how is your leg going in.