Perry on 2016 race: This isn’t about who’s got the most money

“We had a good fundraising week last week and we’ll go forward with that”, Perry said on CNN’s “New Day” in response to reports that he had stopped paying his campaign staff”. The governorship of the state of Texas was limited to a certain amount of money, and I wanted to go get the best and the brightest, and you need to pay the best and the brightest, and I think that’s the way – that’s the way you do it. Makes sense.

Perry: Well, I try to remind people that this is a marathon and not a sprint.

Rick Perry commented on his lackluster standing in recent polls on Tuesday, saying the latest surveys on Republican candidates represent just “a snapshot in time” and vowing to dig in his heels in early states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. What people really care about is, “Give me the opportunity to succeed”.

According to a CNN/ORC poll released earlier in the morning, Perry garnered just 2 percent among self-identified Republicans and GOP-leaning independents.

Perry’s money woes are also leading strategists to believe he will be the first to drop out of the 2016 race, a Politico insiders’ panel said last week.

However, the last time Perry sought presidential office in the 2011 race, he was near the top of the list, Cuomo pointed out, with 27 percent of the voters. Do we want an individual who has a real record of running a, a major, major in the case of Texas, an entity in that’s about the same size of Canada or Australia, or are we going to take a chance on another young and inexperienced United States Senator like Barack Obama who’s got our country in, I think off track economically and certainly foreign policy wise as well. “This is a piece of legislation that basically duplicates what’s at the federal level”.

“Have I been able to for the last week?”

Presidential hopeful Rick Perry touted his record as the longest serving governor in Texas state history while in Storm Lake, Iowa, Monday.

I mean, the record is unparalleled from the standpoint of women in the state of Texas.