Perry challenges Trump to pull-up contest

The shock in all of this is that somehow, even though Perry was acting remarkably coherent, presidential and, well, eerily reasonable about so many things, as we’ve previously reported, Trump is on the rise and Perry’s presidential campaign is again looking like an endangered species.

However, we’re not sure if some of the ardent homophobes running for President could cope with seeing lots of sweaty shirtless men exercising.

As Texans, we constantly feel the need to explain – and for many of us, apologize for – Rick Perry.

This one won’t shock Texans as much as the rest of the country, but Perry’s policy on the border with Mexico is generally praised as pragmatic – something he likely developed during his fourteen years governing a state with over 1,200 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Perry gave a speech on his plans to reform Wall Street if he is elected president at the Yale Club in New York. He is of the view that it was the average American who paid the tremendous price and the fact of the matter is, to be quite frank, everyone got screwed.

“If Secretary Clinton wants to take credit for the “Clinton economy”, Perry said, “then she must defend the destructive homeownership policies advocated by her husband that pushed shoddy loans to people who couldn’t afford them, and the economic chaos that followed”.

The August 4 cutoff for the August 6 debates is fast approaching and it looks like the longest serving governor in Texas won’t be on the debate stage.

“Distrust with Wall Street and with Washington is probably greater than at any time in our history”, Mr. Perry said at a Midtown luncheon for the Committee to Unleash Economic Prosperity, a pro-business group.

Perry made the pull-up challenge after he was confronted with Trump’s criticisms, which said Perry lacked “toughness, energy and brain power”.

In an interview to The New York Observer, Rick Perry said that he supports “regulatory breathing room” for digital currencies such as Bitcoin.

For Perry especially, the polling could endanger his highest-profile opportunity yet to show off what he has been telling everyone who will listen over the past several months: He is not the Rick Perry of the 2012 race. Was Trump enhancing the debate among Republicans?