If Carly Fiorina’s performance at last week’s GOP “Happy Hour” debate was any sign, she should make the prime-time stage with the top-polling Republican candidates next time ’round.

And kudos to Fox for finding a way to sneak her into Thursday’s “varsity” debate: To set up a question for the first-tier candidates during the prime-time debate, it ran back-to-back clips of the former Hewlett-Packard CEO talking about Iran earlier that day.

Fiorina’s full, beautifully on-point statement went like this: “On Day One in the Oval Office, I would make two phone calls,” she said. “The first one would be to my good friend, Bibi Netanyahu, to reassure him we will stand with the State of Israel.

“The second will be to the supreme leader of Iran. He might not take my phone call, but he would get the message, and the message is this: Until you open every nuclear and every military facility to full, open, anytime, anywhere, for-real inspections, we are going to make it as difficult as possible for you to move money around the global financial system.”

Lines like that have produced a broad consensus from Thursday: Fiorina was one of the night’s biggest winners.

“Carly Fiorina walked in tonight, owned the stage, and owned it big,” Karl Rove said on the Fox post-game show.

He clearly wasn’t the only fan.

Google declared her the most-searched candidate in 48 states. Twitter users — even liberals — heralded her victory.

She’s plainly a voice worth having at the table. Here’s to Carly Fiorina being on the stage with the big tuna for the next debate.