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Rick Perry at a rally on the morning of the Jan. 3, 2012, Iowa caucuses." class="lightbox"> <img src="//web.archive.org/web/20151025015715im_/http://static.texastribune.org/media/images/PerryStrikers274CMS_jpg_312x1000_q100.jpg" alt="Gov. Rick Perry at a rally on the morning of the Jan. 3, 2012, Iowa caucuses."> </a> <div class="photo_links"> <a href="//web.archive.org/web/20151025015715/http://static.texastribune.org/media/images/PerryStrikers274CMS_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg" title="Gov. Rick Perry at a rally on the morning of the Jan. 3, 2012, Iowa caucuses." class="lightbox enlarge">Enlarge</a> <cite>Photo by Bob Daemmrich</cite> </div> <div class="photo_caption">Gov. Rick Perry at a rally on the morning of the Jan. 3, 2012, Iowa caucuses.</div> </div> <div class="Section1"> <p class="body">No phrase sums up <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151025015715/http://www.texastribune.org/directory/rick-perry/">Rick Perry’s</a> political DNA better than this one: He has <del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:08"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:08"></ins>never lost an election. But after an awful fifth-place showing in Iowa, and top aides telling him he should consider pulling out of the presidential race, the specter of a first <del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:09"></del>defeat has come into focus.</p> <p class="body"><del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:09"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:09"></ins>Here's the problem: Perry does not <ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:10"></ins><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:10"></ins><del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:10"></del>really know how to lose.</p> <p class="body">“Setbacks are unknown to him,” said Bill Miller, a <ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:10"></ins>veteran Texas lobbyist and consultant. <del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:10"></del>“He has no experience with it. He’s never quit because he’s never lost.”</p> <p class="body">For a few hours following his drubbing in Iowa, it seemed that moment had finally arrived. <ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:10"></ins>Perry’s emotional speech at the Sheraton West Des Moines late Tuesday l<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:11"></ins>eft staffers t<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:10"></ins>eary-eyed but somewhat relieved, and w<del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:10"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:10"></ins>ith the unmistakable impression t<del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:11"></del>hat he was going home for good, that a formal withdrawal announcement was imminent.</p> <p class="body">“It’s done,” said one senior campaign official, when asked if there was any chance P<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:11"></ins>erry might stay in the race.<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:11"><br/></ins></p><div class="ad_container ad_container--adify"> <div class="ad adunit mobile tablet standard" data-adunit="TexasTribune_Content_StoryPage_InsideStory_468x60"> </div> </div> <p class="body">Then came the caveat.</p> <p>“But you know Rick Perry ... you never know what he’s going to do,” the aide said. “He may wake up tomorrow and decide he’s back in.”</p> </div> <p class="body">That’s exactly what happened early the next day, when P<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:11"></ins>erry <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151025015715/https://twitter.com/#!/GovernorPerry/status/154596463995912193">used</a> his personal Twitter account to say he was heading <del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:12"></del>to South Carolina, site of the nation’s first Southern primary.</p> <p class="body">Stunned campaign aides and reporters, bleary-eyed from a gathering that had all the trappings of a late-night farewell party, stumbled out of their hotel rooms — or in a few cases from rental <ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:12"></ins>cars that had been pointed toward the airport — to assess the news.</p> <p class="body">Was it real?</p> <p class="body">A longtime Perry spokesman<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:12">,</ins> Mark Miner, clutching a Red Bull in one hand and a cigarette in the other, confirmed the Tweet had come from P<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:12"></ins>erry, and wryly noted, <del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:13"></del>“He never left the race.”</p> <p class="body">Nor did P<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:13"></ins>erry wait until he got back t<del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:13"></del>o Texas to reassess his chances, as he said he would the night before. Instead, he said he found inspiration on the jogging trail.</p> <p>“It kind of came to me,” Perr<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:13"></ins>y said. Top advis<del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:13"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:13"></ins>ers, speaking on condition of anonymity, say Perry's wife, Anita, and son, <ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:13"></ins><del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:13"></del>Griffin, were staunchly opposed to a withdrawal.</p><div class="ad_container ad_container--adify"> <div class="ad adunit mobile tablet standard" data-adunit="TexasTribune_Content_StoryPage_InsideStory2_468x60"> </div> </div> <p class="body">Bob Haus, P<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:14"></ins>erry’s Iowa campaign director, had tears in his eyes after P<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:14"></ins>erry left the stage Tuesday night, but he was not surprised when he saw the governor's resolve the next morning.</p> <p class="body">“He doesn’t mish-mash around,” H<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:14"></ins>aus said. “He doesn’t second guess himself.”</p> <p class="body"><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:14"></ins>Perry has exhibited the same grit through an uninterrupted winning streak that began in 1984, when he won a seat in the Texas House of Representatives.</p> <p class="body">Time and time again, he has won seemingly unwinnable elections. His biggest test came in 1990, when pundits and even many Republicans thought the cotton farmer and former Air Force pilot had no chance to beat l<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:15"></ins>iberal icon Jim Hightower for Texas agriculture commissioner.</p> <p class="body">But as that November evening wore on, his chief strategist at the time, Karl Rove, told Perry that he would win in a squeaker.</p> <p class="body">“He looked at me like I was nuts,” R<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:15"></ins>ove said <del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:15"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:15"></ins>in an email.<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:15"></ins><del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:15"><br/></del></p> <p class="body"><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:15"></ins>Perry had another razor-thin victory, for lieutenant governor in 1998. T<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:15"></ins>hen when he announced in 2009 that he was running for an unprecedented third term as governor,<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:16"></ins> polls showed he was 20 points behind popular U.S. Sen. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151025015715/http://www.texastribune.org/directory/kay-bailey-hutchison/"><del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:16"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:16"></ins><del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:16"></del>Kay Bailey Hutchison</a>.</p> <p class="body">The governor, honing an anti-Washington message that has since become his political mantra, won by that same margin, e<del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:16"></del>ngineering <del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:16"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:16"></ins>a rare 40-point swing.<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:17"></ins></p> <p class="body"><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:17"></ins>Perry is trying to keep the never-lose mythology alive in South Carolina, which aides once described as his “Southern firewall.”</p> <p class="body">Defeat may yet come. Despite his Iowa pounding<del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:17"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:17"></ins> though, supporters argue that this, of all times, is the wrong moment to quit. Perry still has b<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:17"></ins><del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:17"></del><del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:17"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:17"></ins>etween $3 million and $5 million according to campaign insiders.</p> <p class="body">And in a race that has had as many twists and t<del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:18"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:18"></ins>urns as this one, a Rick Perry comeback, they say, is just as plausible as any other scenario.</p> <p class="body">This much is sure: As long as there is a dollar in the bank and a shred of hope, those who know P<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:18"></ins>erry best will not count him out.</p> <p class="body">“He’s never lost, and I don’t think he or the campaign intend to lose this time,” said Reggie Bashur, a l<ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:18"></ins>ongtime Republican p<del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:18"></del><ins cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:18"></ins>olitical consultant. <del cite="mailto:Agostino,%20Jill" datetime="2012-01-05T16:18"></del>“He plays to win. 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