Rick Perry, the former Texas
governor who insisted he learned lessons from his disastrous 2012 presidential
campaign, dropped his second bid for the White House on Friday after just 100
days.
"Today,
I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States,"
Perry said in an address in St. Louis that virtually mirrored his standard
stump speech until the very end. "Life is good. I am a blessed man."
The
departure of Perry, who had little support in early-voting states or among the
GOP donor class, is unlikely to alter the contours of the Republican race. But
Perry nevertheless implored his supporters in an email to back a candidate who
embodies the principles of conservatism.
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