Perry: I stepped in it during Republican debate
He was asked if his campaign, struggling to regain traction, could survive. “This ain’t a day for quitting nothing,” he said, a day after he stood on stage unable to remember a government department he had vowed to abolish throughout his campaign
With a blitz of interviews and TV appearances, the Texas governor was looking to stem any fallout from a major mistake made in front of millions of watching Americans during a Republican debate.