Rick Perry will announce today his intentions to run for the Republican presidential nomination.
But McClatchy notes “unlike the more than a dozen other Republicans who are either in the presidential race already or on the verge, he has another factor at play. Hanging over his head is an indictment in Texas on charges of abuse of power when he was governor.”


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