The top Iowa Republican behind Rick Perry’s presidential campaign announced Monday that he was leaving the operation.
Abby Livingston
Abby Livingston joined The Texas Tribune in 2014 as the publication's first Washington bureau chief, and departed August 2022. In this role, she covered members in the Texas congressional delegation and campaigns back in the home state. A seventh-generation Texan, Abby grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to the Tribune, Abby worked for NBC, CNN, National Journal and Roll Call. At the Tribune, she won the 2017 National Press Club Award for Washington regional reporting and the Society of Professional Journalists' 2018 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington correspondence. Abby is a contributing writer to the Almanac of American Politics and frequently appears on MSNBC, CNN and Sirius XM radio. She also had a role on an episode of "The Bold and The Beautiful." In keeping with the Trib’s great history of hiring softball stars, Abby is a three-time MVP (the most in game history) for The Bad News Babes, the women’s press softball team that takes on female members of Congress in the annual Congressional Women’s Softball breast cancer charity game.
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A Different Rick Perry at the Iowa State Fair
Grilling pork in a red apron, the 2015 Rick Perry is a different candidate than the one who blew into the Iowa State Fair four years ago as a frontrunner on a short-lived campaign sugar high.
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Rick Perry Campaign in Triage Mode
On the Iowa campaign trail, Rick Perry and his band of unpaid staffers were upbeat after a week of bad headlines about the financial state of his campaign. But Texas’ longest-serving governor is in a race against time.
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How Rick Perry Ended Up in a Financial Hole
Even though Rick Perry has been walking politically wounded since his last presidential run, the news that his campaign was in serious financial trouble startled the Texas political world on Tuesday.
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Perry Stops Paying All Campaign Staff
Rick Perry’s presidential campaign has stopped paying all of its staff as the Republican former Texas governor’s fundraising has dried up, campaign officials and other Republicans familiar with the operation said late Monday.
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Cruz and Cornyn Clash on Senate Floor
In the span of 10 minutes on Sunday afternoon, Texas’ two senators engaged in what was — by Senate standards — a tough exchange on the chamber’s floor.
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Cruz Calls Senate Majority Leader McConnell a Liar
There are few places in modern life where strict decorum remains like the halls and the floor of the United States Senate. And on Friday morning, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz shattered one of the surest unwritten rules of the upper chamber.
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Perry Super Donor: We’re Not Hedging Our Bets
It’s one thing to land a seven-figure donor in the super PAC era. It’s quite another feat to nail down a monster contributor who will give exclusively to support a single presidential candidate. One such family is sticking with Rick Perry.
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Perry Rips Trump in Washington Speech
Former Gov. Rick Perry unloaded on Republican presidential rival Donald Trump on Wednesday during a speech in Washington.
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Congress to Vote on Sanctuary Cities
Texas Republicans who grouse that the federal government doesn’t enforce immigration laws might soon have Congress to thank for beefing up enforcement at the state and local levels.
