2012 Presidential Election
Her husband announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 presidential election on August 13, 2011, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Anita Perry accompanied her husband on many of his campaign stops. In October, when Governor Perry's poll numbers began to sink, Anita delivered an emotional speech at North Greenville University in South Carolina, in which she suggested that some of the attacks being leveled at her husband were rooted in anger towards his evangelical Christianity. "It’s been a rough month. We have been brutalized and beaten up and chewed up in the press to where I need this today. We are being brutalized by our opponents, and our own party. So much of that is, I think they look at him, because of his faith. He is the only true conservative – well, there are some true conservatives. And they’re there for good reasons. And they may feel like God called them too. But I truly feel like we are here for that purpose." On Good Morning America the next morning, Governor Perry stood by his wife's comments.
On January 19, 2012, with Anita Perry and their son Griffin at his side, Governor Perry announced he would suspend his campaign and return to Texas.
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