Credit: Jay Root / Todd Wiseman

A little more than a week after his embarrassing debate performance, Rick Perry this weekend got back to doing what he does best — pressing the flesh with voters. Perry held four town hall meetings in less than 24 hours. In this video from Friday, Sept. 30 in Derry, N.H., Perry fends off a hostile question about global warming, talks about his plans for Social Security and displays his trademark Texas swagger.

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Todd Wiseman was the senior editor for video and multimedia at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2010 to 2023. Todd previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned...

Jay Root is an award-winning journalist who reported for the Tribune from 2011 to 2020. He covered the dramatic collapse of Gov. Rick Perry’s 2012 presidential campaign and went on to write an ebook...