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Trial Balloon · Ep. 194: What Just Happened?

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November 19, 2014 · 1:48 pm ET · 34 Comments

“It’s never going to go away. It’s always there, just as Bill Clinton’s 1988 convention speech is always there. It’s always part of your past. I’m a big believer that Americans…are interested in how do you perform after you’ve been knocked down.”

— Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), quoted by the Washington Post, on overcoming his failed 2012 presidential bid.

[speech_bubble type=”std” subtype=”a” icon=”pwdome.jpg” name=””]As Rick Perry knows too well, people do forget. [/speech_bubble]

2016 Campaign Rick Perry

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