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| TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Rick Perry’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination will rise or fall on his 10-year record as Texas governor. In Monday’s crackling GOP debate, his rivals attacked that record as never before, led by a newly energized Mitt ... |
| ThinkProgress filed this report from the GOP presidential debate in Tampa, Florida. Though Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) picked up the support of Bobby Jindal yesterday, the Louisiana governor was unwilling to endorse Perry’s tough talk on Social Securit ... |
| ThinkProgress filed this report from the Republican debate in Tampa, Florida. Before yesterday’s Republican presidential debate began, 75 to 100 Floridians gathered outside to protest the Tea Party’s goals and defend Social Security against constant ... |
![]() | Polls show Texas Gov. Rick Perry with a commanding 10-point lead over the rest of the GOP field, but is he really in the lead to win the nomination? His first debate performance was solid, but last night's CNN Tea Party debate should have been where ... |
![]() | Texas Governor Rick Perry faced a pincer-like attack on his credentials as a fiscal and social conservative, forcing him to defend his positions on Social Security, job-creation, immigration and vaccinations in a Republican presidential debate last n ... |
| Eight Republican presidential candidates gathered Monday night in Tampa, Fla., for a debate sponsored by CNN and the Tea Party Express. The event marked the first time The Tea Party Express has been an official sponsor of a presidential debate. Texas ... |
| (CNN) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry found himself standing apart from his GOP rivals on a pair of immigration issues... ... |
![]() | Attacked from all sides by fellow Republicans, Texas Gov. Rick Perry softened his rhetoric, if not his position, on Social Security in a snarky presidential campaign debate Monday night. ... |
| Edmund D. Fountain/St. Petersburg Times/Zuma If you watched Monday Night Football you missed CNN's Tea Party debate in Tampa, Fla. Or perhaps you flipped between channels like our own Adam Weinstein . In either case, read on for the MoJo News Team's ... |
| Firmly entrenched as the double-digit front-runner for the Republican President nomination, Texas Governor Rick Perry experienced the full unpleasant privilege of his status on Monday night. Over two grueling hours at the CNN/Tea Party debate, his pr ... |
| Daily Caller - TAMPA, Fla. — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says he supports Rick Perry for president, but dismissed suggestions that he’s angling for a spot on the ticket under the Texas governor if he wins the GOP nomination. ... |
| Republican candidates ganged up on the Texas governor, who stood his ground in the latest GOP presidential forum in Tampa, Fla. ... |
| Daily Caller - TAMPA, Fla. — Two of Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s rivals criticized him at CNN’s Monday night debate for signing an executive order as governor of Texas in 2007 requiring young girls to receive a vaccination in order ... |
| Daily Caller - TAMPA, Fla. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney accused each other of scaring seniors during a heated back-and-forth on Social Security at the GOP presidential debate on Monday. ... |
| Tampa, Florida (CNN) - With Texas Gov. Rick Perry threatening to cement his standing atop the national polls, his rivals... ... |
![]() | CNN’s over-produced, odd-couple alliance with the Tea Party produced an unexpected result—the first “Not So Fast, Governor Perry” debate. Direct from Tampa, the site of the 2012 GOP Convention, the debate illustrated Perry’s vulnerabilities as the po ... |
| Feminist groups spend a lot of time lamenting the ways women “trail behind” men. They’re especially concerned about the shortage of women in political leadership positions. But after last night’s GOP debate, I began to question why we're so concerne ... |
| At the end of the two-hour debate in Tampa, Fla., his rivals may not have knocked him out of the lead but they gave any Republican voters who might have doubts about Perry plenty more fuel for their concerns. ... |
| Rick Perry defended his position on immigration as a principled conservative stance, taking heat from Mitt Romney and other candidates at the GOP debate who described the Texas governor as an border-security squish. Perry, who signed a law giving so ... |
| Texas Gov. Rick Perry says a massive fence along the U.S.-Mexican border isn't the answer to the nation's immigration challenges and instead says Washington should send thousands of border agents and National Guard to patrol the area. ... |
| Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will endorse fellow sitting Gov. Rick Perry of Texas in the race for the Republican nomination for president, sources say. The news could help offset the positive attention Perry rival Mitt Romney has enjoyed after landin ... |
| WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will endorse Rick Perry for president. A Republican familiar with the endorsement tells the AP that Jindal will announce his support for the Texas governor ahead of M ... |
![]() | Texas Gov. Rick Perry says a massive fence along the U.S.-Mexican border isn't the answer to the nation's immigration challenges and instead says Washington should send thousands of border patrol and National Guard forces to patrol. ... |
| With his late entry into the race and his surge in the polls, Governor Perry has become the favored target of his rivals for the nomination. ... |
![]() | Keep Conservatives United, a Super PAC which is supportive of Michele Bachmann’s presidential candidacy, has announced a radio ad campaign that will accuse GOP presidential front-runner Texas Gov. Rick Perry of being soft on immigration. “The differ ... |
| Daily Caller - TAMPA, Fla. — Does the governor of Texas have the support of Walker, Texas Ranger? ... |