voters with perrigo. will their go with gingrich or go to santorum. bill: we ll find out saturday. talk to you nix hour. john roberts on the trail in charleston. martha: what a difference a day makes to be sure, right, folks? some of rick perry s most memorable moments were during debates. no doubt he thought back on those and wondered if he could do things differently. here is one of those as we head to break. we ll be right back. the state of texas is under assault by the federal government. i am saying also that south carolina, is at war with this federal government and with this administration. [applause] wake up!
country along the coast or would it be up state where it is more conservative, more evangelical? reporter: absolutely the up state, more conservative. that is where rick perry s base was. that is expected where he would do well. bill: that is where santorum could gain with a perry withdrawal? reporter: perry supporters were never mitt romney leaners. it is very clear what is left of the texas governor s support in the palmetto state is inclined to be choosing between santorum and gingrich. there is an awful lot of unresolved business on the campaign trail. revelations continue to come about mitt romney s wealth and he continues to play defense, not with standing origin of most of these criticisms being democratic national committee and not his actual republican rivals. newt gingrich is facing all kinds of last-minute problems. criticism by romney and conservatives by his attack on quote, free enterprise going after romney s bain capital days but also the possibilities one of
dramatically have been in the aggregate determined to be one of his weaknesses. rather than put himself through the embarassment of standing on a stage knowing he is likely to come in last in the field, it is time to pull out. and it follows actually precisely what jon huntsman did, recognizing he was in jeopardy of essentially being odd man out on the debate stage with his weakness in the polls and recognizing he would not do well he pulled out hours before the debate on monday. perry avoids the debate problems this evening and he will still be on the ballot. that won t change. as a matter of fact both michele bachmann and herman cain will be on the ballot and they re out as well. it avoids, his recognition that it is time to go back to austin and continue on being longest serving governor in texas and longest serving governor in the country. bill: does it make sense to you that he would endorse gingrich? reporter: i don t think there is any position to be talking about that as a ma
place over next couple days. governor nikki haley participating right now with the heritage foundation, family research council in a kickoff drive to get values voters out to the polls. values voters were encouraged by this conclave in texas over the weekend to go for rick santorum. but a lot are breaking for newt gingrich. nikki haley being here with this push, she as you said endorsing romney. we hope to get her back on camera live on fox in couple minutes. we asked her how she thinks affect the race. there is no question with values voters remember what happened in 2008, where they split between mike huckabee and fred thompson and john mccain the moderate ran right up the middle. is that going to happen again here in 201. might they split between rick santorum and newt gingrich and allow romney to run up the middle? will they coalesce around one candidate? right now the heritage foundation, family research council, they re neutral in all of this. a lot of people working behind the s
recomes tout to talk. he was thought to have a war chest, some money remaining. whether or not he blew all that in iowa is something that we ll figure out down the road. all signs seem to indicate that perry was going to give it another fight in south carolina, likely not ginning but still as a sittinwin, but as a sitting governor, do you go back to texas and say, let s get the job done where we started. reporter: absolutely. he s going to be quite a figure, not as much of a figure in austin east was. there are plenty of candidates that have lost but go become to their home state and go on with their careers. like some candidates he was never as popular and never as high on the polls as the day he announced. he immediately went up to about 39% in some of the polls, overwhelming favorite, an went to the debate stages an wasn t ready for prime-time and those