January 10, 2012 10:07 pm by: KUT Staff
Governor Rick Perry's campaign hinges on his performance in the January 21st South Carolina Republican Primary. Photo by Daniel Reese for KUT News.
The result of Tuesday's New Hampshire Republican presidential primary election was inconsequential for Texas Governor Rick Perry. Aside from two debate appearances over the past weekend, Perry was willing to write off the Granite State and plead his case to the GOP faithful in South Carolina....
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Texas Governor Rick Perry won’t be in the state for Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary returns. Recent polls show he would pick up just one percent of the vote there. Instead, he’s making a last stand in South Carolina. KUT’s Ben Philpott, who has been following the governor on the campaign trail, reports from Leesville, South Carolina, that the candidate’s do-or-die message is working with voters there....
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Gov. Rick Perry took a few hits in the Republican presidential debate this week. KUT News’ Emily Donahue and Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas and the Austin American-Statesman fact-check the claims and counterclaims.
It’s also been repeated for years that Perry was a Texas leader of...
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As the Republican presidential candidates took turns giving their ideas for fixing the U.S. economy during last night’s debate, the Texas economy--and Governor Rick Perry’s handling of it--were on display. But does the governor’s debate rhetoric matches up with his record and results in...
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The next big moment in the Republican presidential campaign is Tuesday’s debate at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, focusing on the U.S. economy. Gov. Rick Perry touts his economic record in Texas, but his focus on job creation has yet to yield any specifics in his campaign.
Perry's policy...
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The name of a hunting ranch leased by Governor Perry and his family since the mid 80s has many criticizing the implications of overt racism in West Texas. The name, which contains a racially offensive term, came under fire after a story appeared in the Washington Post on Sunday. Reaction has come...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry is campaigning across New Hampshire this weekend. It’s his first real voter meet and greets since his campaign announced a new offensive against GOP rival Mitt Romney - and President Barack Obama.
But even before the town hall in Derry began – his critics were...
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Governor Rick Perry travels to New Hampshire this weekend, near the home territory of his main rival for the GOP nomination, Mitt Romney. Perry’s campaign is promising to renew focus on his core message and to distinguish the Texas candidate from his New England competition.
New Hampshire is a...
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It’s punch and counterpunch time on the GOP campaign trail, and Gov. Rick Perry is a popular target. Some attacks are fanciful and some are (mostly) factual.
KUT’s Emily Donahue speaks to Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas and the Austin American-Statesman about the veracity of claims made by...
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A day after the latest GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire, KUT’s Ian Crawford talks with Ross Ramsey, executive editor of the Texas Tribune, about the performance of the two Texans in the race.
I think some people were looking for [Perry] to break out a little bit and get back into...
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The Republican presidential hopefuls debate again on stage in New Hampshire tonight. This debate is an important one for Texas Gov. Rick Perry. He’s stumbled in previous debates and tumbled in the polls. KUT News’ Crystal Chavez talks with KUT’s political reporter Ben Philpott about why this...
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The GOP primary campaign continues, and so do attacks and counterattacks on Gov. Rick Perry’s record.
KUT News’ Emily Donahue and Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas and the Austin American-Statesman check on the debate over Texas’ in-state tuition for some undocumented immigrants.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry spent the weekend appealing to GOP voters in New Hampshire. He took questions at almost all of his stops. Many were about the Texas Dream Act, the program that lets some foreign born children of illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges.
Even before Rick...
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The presidential campaign trail has been a little rough the last week of so for Governor Rick Perry.
He’s been taking it on the chin over his comment in a debate that people opposed to in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants don’t “have a heart”.
He now calls that...
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Mara Liasson, NPR
Texas Gov. Rick Perry rocketed to the top of the field after he jumped in the race for the GOP nomination for president last month.
His early rise in the polls was based on what Republican voters...
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When Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced plans to run for president, he made a point of noting that it was his wife, Anita, who urged him to go for it, to get out of his "comfort zone."
Step...
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