Perry, Santorum may be out of debate; Kasich, Christie look in

Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and five others may be out of Thursday night’s debate. John Kasich and Chris Christie look like they’re close to being in.

With one day to go until final results are announced, MSNBC’s First Read Monday compiled an average of five national polls to show where the Republican presidential candidates stood.

The top 10 will be on the debate stage in Cleveland Thursday. The rest can participate in a late afternoon forum.

The poll cutoff date is Tuesday at 5 p.m., and as of Monday morning, here are the top 10:

Donald Trump: 19.8 percent

Scott Walker: 13.2 percent

Jeb Bush: 13.0 percent

Rand Paul: 6.4 percent

Ben Carson: 6.4 percent

Marco Rubio: 6.2 percent

Mike Huckabee: 5.8 percent

Ted Cruz: 5.8 percent

Chris Christie: 3.2 percent

John Kasich: 3.2 percent

And then.....

Rick Perry: 2.6 percent

Rick Santorum: 1.4 percent

Bobby Jindal: 1.4 percent

Carly Fiorina: 0.6 percent

George Pataki: 0.6 percent

Lindsey Graham: 0.4 percent

Jim Gilmore: 0.0

The results are an average of five national polls.

The McClatchy-Marist Poll has temporarily suspended polling on primary voter choices due to concern that public polling is being misused to decide debate participants. The Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducts the national survey, listed several reasons: Criteria assume too much precision in poll when candidates are mere fractions apart, they presume that national polls being used are comparable, and make the media participants in the process.

This story was originally published August 3, 2015 at 9:16 AM with the headline "Perry, Santorum may be out of debate; Kasich, Christie look in."