The chances of the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, becoming a favorite for the Republican nomination to take on Barack Obama rose on Thursday after a poor showing for the other candidates in the larger discussion so far.
Perry's office confirmed Thursday that it plans to announce it will join the race on Saturday at a conference of conservatives in Charleston, South Carolina. Perry input came too late to participate in the debate Thursday in Ames, Iowa This was an important debate, coming at the start of three hectic days of the campaign in the state in the first of the Republican caucus is scheduled to in February.
Eight declared candidates took part, but no clear winner emerged from what was a great mate of two hours. He was feisty animated solely by personal exchanges between Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whose campaign is failing.
Asked about the impending arrival of Perry in the race, the candidates were educated, with a description of him as a formidable and another to welcome him and Sarah Palin if she chooses to stand. Palin is scheduled to make a public appearance in Iowa on Friday.
Pawlenty desperately needs to revive his campaign by doing well in the poll of Iowa on Saturday, a traditonal test of potential presidential candidates. If he fails, he could see his other financial backers leave.
Under pressure, the main objective was predictable Bachmann, previous winner of the debate in New Hampshire and who leads in the polls in Iowa adopting a condescending tone, said Bachmann had done little in his five years in Congress. "She has done wonderful things in your life, but it is an indisputable fact that his record of achievement and outcomes is nonexistent," Pawlenty said, trying to compensate for their failure to make an impact in the New Hampshire debate and shed its image of dullness. rival Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann and bitterly debated Thursday night during a discussion of eight Republican candidates trying to break the GOP presidential pack before a test vote in Iowa, with enormous consequences. Each seeks to become the main Republican rival Mitt Romney leading candidate.
Their efforts were complicated by the new governor of Texas, Rick Perry, who stole some of the attention from afar what is known hours before the debate was a candidate for the Republican nomination. Romney, a billionaire businessman who is projected as a creator of jobs, made his own revolver earlier in the day at the Iowa State Fair, said that "companies are people," drawing ridicule from Democrats.
Those were just the latest of the most momentous weeks in 2012 still fighting the Republican presidential nomination.
In the two-hour debate, fighting for Pawlenty and Bachmann allowed Romney, the leading GOP candidate to run for president in second place, to remain above the fray and emerge relatively unscathed by his rivals.
Despite all the discussion participants assaulted President Barack Obama, it is clear from the clashes between Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota, and Bachmann, now a member of Congress, which was more in line ahead of poll Saturday could winnow the field.
