Rick Perry: Biden Admin. Should Stand up and Admit They Are Wrong on Energy

CNN Exclusive: Jan 6 Investigators Believe Nov. 4 Text Pushing ‘Strategy’ To Undermine Election Came From Rick Perry

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Rick Perry: Kamala Harris ‘Is Finished’ After Border Question Triggers Tense Exchange

Rick Perry: Message at Border ‘It’s Okay to Sex-Traffick Children,’ Inhumane in Greatest Sense

Rick Perry: If You Don’t Have the Diversity of Energy Sources, You’re Not Going to Have the Energy

Rick Perry: Mick Mulvaney Was ‘Straight Up with What He Said’ on Trump-Ukraine

Sec. Perry: Because of American Innovation, We Are in the ‘Driver’s Seat When It Comes to Energy in the World’

Rick Perry on Cyber Warfare: ‘We Look at This as One of Our Most Important Jobs to Protect American Citizens’

Rick Perry: Trump’s ‘Very, Very Engaged;’ ‘He Knows Exactly What’s Going On’ in Texas

Secretary of Energy Perry: I Think We’ll Get Tax Cuts and Healthcare Reform; ‘I’m Very Optimistic’

Rick Perry: I’m Committed to Keeping Americans Safe

Varney: Trump Assembling ‘the Most Conservative Cabinet in at Least a Generation’

TIME Correspondent: Trump Assigning Leaders to Agencies to Sabotage It from Within

MSNBC: Rick Perry Trump’s Top Pick for Energy

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Rick Perry: Kaepernick Needs to Apologize to Police

Washington Post: Rick Perry’s surprisingly frank speech about Texas’ racist past

By Max Ehrenfreund, Jul. 6, 2015, Washington Post

Rick Perry began his speech at the National Press Club on Thursday with an account of the mutilation and lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, in 1916. Perry's honesty with the horrifying facts would have been shocking coming from any politician. Coming from Texas's former governor, though, his words were something new in the debate about race in America. (C-SPAN has a rough transcript of the speech, along with the footage.)

Perry faulted Democrats for failing to improve conditions for Americans of color, citing zoning rules in cities that he said have raised rents for working families in big cities. His most surprising argument, though, was a discussion of the importance of federal power in redressing the consequences of slavery. That idea is anathema to many Republicans, both because of the embrace of federal power and because of the suggestion that policies based specifically on race might still be necessary to create genuine equality.

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ICYMI: CNN: Rick Perry asks black voters to give GOP a second chance

By Theodore Schleifer, Jul. 2, 2015, CNN

Washington (CNN) Rick Perry on Thursday said the Republican Party lost some of its "moral legitimacy" by not vying for the black vote in past elections, adding that the GOP has "much to do" to earn the trust of African-Americans.

Perry, the former Texas governor and 2016 presidential hopeful, used a half-hour speech at the National Press Club in Washington to try and recast blacks' concerns as going beyond race, pitching his much-touted jobs record in Austin as the most enticing message to woo skeptical black voters.

"I am here to tell you that it is Republicans, not Democrats, who are truly offering black Americans the hope of a better life for themselves and their children," Perry told the audience, which was a nearly all-white room of journalists, lobbyists and politicians.

He later conceded: "I know Republicans have much to do to earn the trust of African-Americans."

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C-SPAN: Rick Perry Presidential Campaign Announcement

Fox News: Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry reportedly will join 2016 GOP field

By Fox News, Jun. 4, 2015

June 2, 2015: Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during Rick Scott's Economic Growth Summit in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. 

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry will announce Thursday that he will seek the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, according to a report.

The Associated Press, citing a senior Perry adviser, said that he would formally declare his candidacy at an event in Dallas. The adviser requested anonymity to speak ahead of the formal announcement.

Perry would become the tenth Republican to enter the race for the White House. He has already made several visits to the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, and will look to erase the memories of his disappointing 2012 campaign.

When Perry entered the Republican race last cycle, he was considered to be among the front-runners. Then, at a November 2011 debate in Michigan, he forgot the name of the third federal agency he said he would close if he was elected, then muttered "Oops." In that moment, he went from from powerhouse to punchline and gradually faded from contention.

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