Rick Perry: 'Texas Is a Place Where We Defend Life'

It's Sunday, which means there's a Texas politician discussing the state's abortion bill on national television. Wendy Davis took her crack last week, and Rick Perry said today that his state is "going to support protecting life. I'm pretty good at counting votes and I think the support is overwhelmingly there, and we will get this done." That wasn't his only talking point, notes Politico. When asked about 2016 and the White House, the Texas governor said, "Well, certainly, that's an option out there," though he said "we got a lot of work to do (in Austin) that have my focus substantially more than even 2014 or 2016."

Speaking of 2014, and whether he's running for re-election, "I'm going to have an announcement tomorrow." But the focus, he said, is "we're going to pass some restrictions on abortion in Texas so that Texas is a place where we defend life ...That's the powerful message here. Politics will take care of itself." (More Sunday morning talk shows stories.)