texas governor rick perry is making it official tomorrow in south carolina he ll announce he s officially in the 2012 race. in an exclusive interview for time , he said he hadn t concerned running until a few weeks ago. i went from no, got the best job in america to today being fully engaged in this process of making a decision. the issue of is this what i want to do was dealt with about 45 days ago in a conversation with my wife. nbc news reporter is on skype in south carolina. reporter: we re going to see rick perry making his big announcement. finally making it official here in charleston, south carolina. it s a big primary state that isn t iowa.
now perry has one against bachmann that s make us great again. it s less filling, taste great. it s going to be fun. perry sat down with mark hall prison and talked to him about the thoughts of how he approached the decision to run for president. i went from got the best job in america to today being fully engaged in this process of making a decision. the issue of is this what i want to do was dealt with about 45 days ago in a conversation with my wife. prior to that, no, being the president of the united states was not on my radar screen from the standpoint of something i want to do. so start to finish. i love when politicians who are
it s less filling, taste great. it s going to be fun. perry sat down with mark and talked to him about the thoughts of how he approached the decision to run for president. i went from got the best job in america to today being fully engaged in this process of making a decision. the issue of is this what i want to do was dealt with about 45 days ago in a conversation with my wife. prior to that, no, being the president of the united states was not on my radar screen from the standpoint of something i want to do. so start to finish. i love when politicians who are not president of the united states say i have the greatest job in america.
i think huntsman has been described as an afterthought. who do you think will get knocked out by the straw poll this weekend? well, we ll see. governor pawlenty has staked a lot in the straw poll here, spent a lot of money on the air. he spent most of the last month here in the state of iowa. he has the most at risk here. if he does well it could provide momentum, a jolt in fund-raising. if he does poorly he may be running out of money and it will be unclear where he goes. nbc s mark murray and phil rucker, live from des moines thank you so much. after weeks of speculation, rick perry jumped into the race with both feet. over the next few days he ll travel to several key campaign states. the governor told mark palperin of time and msnis nbc he had intention of running until a couple of weeks ago. i went from no to today to being fully engaged in this process of
conservatives united. now perry has one against bachmann that s make us great again. it s less filling, taste great. it s going to be fun. perry sat down with mark and talked to him about the thoughts of how he approached the decision to run for president. i went from got the best job in america to today being fully engaged in this process of making a decision. the issue of is this what i want to do was dealt with about 45 days ago in a conversation with my wife. prior to that, no, being the president of the united states was not on my radar screen from the standpoint of something i want to do. so start to finish. i love when politicians who are not president of the united states say i have the greatest job in america.