He'll butt with Cruz in Iowa on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Perry, the longest confined governor in Texas history, had continued fabricated the case that alone governors had the controlling acquaintance and accurate acumen to serve as administrator in arch — and in particular, that Cruz lacked the requisite experience.
Like Perry's fizzled attack itself, his altercation got little absorption in the 2016 scramble, and added accepted and above governors accept aswell struggled to accumulate up with the brand of alien candidates Donald Trump and Cruz.
Perry's 2016 accomplishment was consistently adamant by his "oops" moment in 2012 — a acrimonious acumen that angry out to be unshakeable, no amount how abundant he had boned up in the amid years. Before he abdicate the race, he became vocally analytical of Trump.
In a 75-second video acquaint this morning online by Perry and the Cruz campaign, the above governor explains his support. He doesn't acknowledgment Trump by name but is acutely all-embracing the case Cruz makes that to stop Trump, voters accept to adhere abaft him.
"I'm actuality to accent to you how important it is for conservatives to assemblage calm and abutment a constant bourgeois who will yield on Washington, who can defeat the Democrat nominee. That's why I abutment Ted Cruz for president," Perry says into the camera. Cruz, he adds, will defended the bound and accumulate the aggressive strong. "He has accurate that he is accessible to serve as our administrator in chief. ... Ted is the baton that we charge to reignite the affiance of America."
Ideologically, Perry and Cruz had consistently overlapped. Both emphasized a advance for states' rights and acutely abstemious federal power. Perry fabricated the case in a 2012 attack manifesto, "Fed Up!" Cruz — whose aboriginal arch of agents at the Senate was Perry's apparition biographer on that book, Chip Roy — has fabricated his acknowledged fights for states' rights a axial point in his campaign.
Perry's almsman in Austin, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, hasn't accustomed anyone but may advanced of the state's March 1 primary.
Cruz is accepting alloyed luck accession endorsements. He addled Saturday with bourgeois anchorperson Glenn Beck.
The aforementioned day, Robert Jeffress, chief pastor at Dallas' Aboriginal Baptist Church, was advancement in Iowa with Trump, who endure anniversary basked in an endorsement from Sarah Palin, the 2008 carnality presidential appointee and tea affair angel whose abutment for Cruz was analytical in his own 2012 Senate victory.
Perry told Politico in an account that while he believed governors accomplish the best presidents, "The electorate doesn't wish that. That's why we accept elections."
Cruz is ambiguous in eastern Iowa Monday, starting in Maquoketa, area a few hundred humans abounding a allowance at the bounded fairgrounds with a bingo lath on the wall, and ablaze beaming lights. He visits Manchester and Independence Monday afternoon.
"Gov. Rick Perry is a acquaintance and a arresting accessible servant," Cruz said in a account issued by aides. "He is a appreciative adept who bravely served our nation, and he was an amazing governor of Texas. It was an account to serve beneath him during my time as Texas' Solicitor General. I am captivated to accept Rick accompany our campaign. With his conscionable leadership, we will adhere conservatives abaft this attack to win the White House in 2016."
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