{"id":24618,"date":"2015-09-11T20:02:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T01:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=24618"},"modified":"2015-09-11T20:02:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T01:02:47","slug":"rick-perry-suspends-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=24618","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry Suspends Presidential Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/09\/11\/rick-perry-suspends-presidential-bid\/\">Former Texas governor Rick Perry effectively ended his second campaign for president Friday<\/a>, becoming the first candidate to exit the race as his attempt to mount a do-over of his disastrous 2012 run fell short.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Snip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perry had struggled to rise in polls and failed to qualify for last month&#8217;s prime-time debate in Cleveland &#8212; a major setback. He appeared in the undercard debate, only to see Carly Fiorina, a former technology executive, have what many observers considered a breakout performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While I like Perry better than at least 2\/3rds of the GOP field (and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=10049\">made the case for him<\/a> back in 2012), he couldn&#8217;t overcome his gaffes enough to get voters to take a look at his record as Governor. <\/p>\n<p>I bet Evan at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perryvsworld.com\/item\/1924\">Perry vs. World<\/a> would like that prediction back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Former Texas governor Rick Perry effectively ended his second campaign for president Friday, becoming the first candidate to exit the race as his attempt to mount a do-over of his disastrous 2012 run fell short.&#8221; Snip. &#8220;Perry had struggled to rise in polls and failed to qualify for last month&#8217;s prime-time debate in Cleveland &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,12],"tags":[1980,2091,2862,2865,200,2861],"class_list":["post-24618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-2016-election","tag-2016-presidential-race","tag-elections","tag-republicans","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24638,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618\/revisions\/24638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}