GOP Texas governor to run for US president
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August 13, 2011, Saturday
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TEXAS Governor Rick Perry will formally announce his intention to run for United States president today, a spokesman said, a move certain to shake up the race for the Republican nomination much to the delight of conservatives looking for a candidate to embrace.
Perry spokesman Mark Miner said on Thursday the governor would make his intentions known while visiting the crucial early primary states of South Carolina and New Hampshire just as most of his presidential rivals compete in a test vote in another key state, Iowa.
Official word of Perry's entry into the race came just hours before eight candidates, including Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, appeared on stage during a nationally televised debate.
The announcement did not come as much of a surprise. The longest-serving governor in Texas history has flirted with a presidential run since spring and has spent the past few months courting Republicans in early voting states and laying the groundwork for a campaign. He met privately with potential donors from California to New York and gave rabble-rousing speeches to party faithful, casting himself as a fiscally responsible social conservative.
His intentions became even clearer over the past few days when officials disclosed that he would visit an important trio of states, a campaign-like schedule timed to overshadow the debate and the Iowa straw poll and, perhaps, wreak havoc on a field led by Romney, the former Massachusetts governor. Romney, a Mormon who also ran in 2008, is unpopular with some conservatives because of his shifting stances on social issues.
Perry spokesman Mark Miner said on Thursday the governor would make his intentions known while visiting the crucial early primary states of South Carolina and New Hampshire just as most of his presidential rivals compete in a test vote in another key state, Iowa.
Official word of Perry's entry into the race came just hours before eight candidates, including Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, appeared on stage during a nationally televised debate.
The announcement did not come as much of a surprise. The longest-serving governor in Texas history has flirted with a presidential run since spring and has spent the past few months courting Republicans in early voting states and laying the groundwork for a campaign. He met privately with potential donors from California to New York and gave rabble-rousing speeches to party faithful, casting himself as a fiscally responsible social conservative.
His intentions became even clearer over the past few days when officials disclosed that he would visit an important trio of states, a campaign-like schedule timed to overshadow the debate and the Iowa straw poll and, perhaps, wreak havoc on a field led by Romney, the former Massachusetts governor. Romney, a Mormon who also ran in 2008, is unpopular with some conservatives because of his shifting stances on social issues.
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