WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Texas Gov. Rick Perry views the road beyond Iowa as one working more in his favor than in Michele Bachmann’s or Rick Santorum’s, saying the two rivals, who are competing for the same conservative evangelical votes, have no national organization to be viable in other primary states.
“I agree that Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann don’t have a national organization in place nor the fundraising ability to go forward out of Iowa, and so I’m the only one that actually has that ability,” Perry said during an interview on Fox News today, also noting that regardless of the outcome in Tuesday’s caucuses, he’ll “be going across the country, South Carolina, into Florida, into Nevada, with a national campaign.”
Perry also continued his criticism of Santorum in an NBC News interview, slamming him for supporting earmarks and responding to Santorum’s spoof of Perry’s “oops” moment Sunday, insisting that you can eliminate federal agencies.
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