I have listened to her and I like her. She put Chrissie right in his place with his questions about Hillary. The GOP needs her, like it or not; she at least has cojones to criticize Trump, which none of the other milquetoasts have!! Now I love Cruz myself, but she belongs up there and for CNN to deny her at this point, when she clearly has been scoring in the polls since August 6, is petty at best and more of the war of women at worst.
The leftists at CNN don't want a woman of some accomplishment articulating conservative ideas before a national audience, to any degree. They would see her as a threat to dislodge a fraction of female support for the Slave Party.