Over Barbecue in South Carolina, Rick Perry Hypes Supreme Court as Defining 2016 Issue
The Texan warns voters in the early primary state that Hillary Clinton could remake the Supreme Court.
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry speaks to guests gathered at the Point of Grace Church for the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition 2015 Spring Kickoff on April 25, 2015 in Waukee, Iowa.
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Teasing a presidential announcement “in the next 30 days,” Republican Rick Perry emphasized the Supreme Court as a central issue in the 2016 election while a crowd of some 100 locals munched on barbecue Friday evening in Taylors, S.C.
The former governor of Texas drew a warm welcome at Dickey's Barbecue Pit—a chain based in his home state—in this suburb of Greenville, delivering a standard dish of conservative red meat on issues like reducing the national debt, protecting states' rights, and rejecting Obamacare and financial reform.