{"id":10044,"date":"2011-06-09T21:17:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T01:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10044"},"modified":"2011-06-10T06:44:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T10:44:48","slug":"update-on-the-gingrichperry-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10044\/update-on-the-gingrichperry-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Gingrich\/Perry Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ashton <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10040\/gingrich-campaign-on-life-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">noted earlier<\/a>, Newt Gingrich is having one of the worst days of an already bad campaign. As of this evening, it&#8217;s now looking increasingly clear that the injury of his staff&#8217;s departure is going to be augmented by the insult of most of them lining up behind Texas Governor Rick Perry. It was just a rumor when Ashton posted earlier, but now it&#8217;s looking more like a sure thing. Over <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/06\/09\/sources-rick-perry-is-running\/#ixzz1OpcFEU2J\" target=\"_blank\">at the Daily Caller<\/a>, Matt Lewis reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two separate and reliable sources in Texas tell me serious preparations are being made for Governor Rick Perry, 61, to seek the Republican nomination for president.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Carney and Rob Johnson \u2014 the former top Perry aides who on Thursday left Newt Gingrich\u2019s floundering campaign \u2014 are said to be heading to Texas soon to join in on preparations for the run. I am told this is now \u201cninety percent likely to occur.\u201d Additionally, Perry allies have begun holding meetings in the state and have been instructed to quietly reach out to contacts in early primary states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of this drama six months before the first votes are cast. Get ready for a long and exciting primary season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ashton noted earlier, Newt Gingrich is having one of the worst days of an already bad campaign. As of this evening, it&#8217;s now looking increasingly clear that the injury of his staff&#8217;s departure is going to be augmented by the insult of most of them lining up behind Texas Governor Rick Perry. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,869,838],"class_list":["post-10044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-rick-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10050,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions\/10050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}