Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has dropped out of the race due to campaign fundraising issues that began in August, withdrawing from the election after only 100 days, according to CNN. The campaign had even stopped paying staffers in order to alleviate the issue.
In hopes to assist in the fundraising Super PACs raised almost 17 million to help him, but in the end it wasn't enough.
"When I gave my life to Christ, I said, 'Your ways are greater than my ways. Your will is superior to mine.' Today I submit to you his will remains a mystery, but some things have become, and become very clear to me. That is why today I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States," the former Texas governor said at the Eagle Forum in St. Louis, according to NBCNews.
Roy Bailey, Perry's long-time friend, donor and businessman said that, "It'd be easy just to keep going, be easy to go do the debate next week, be easy to keep going to Iowa and South Carolina and other states and everything and taking your money and dragging it out," according to YahooNews.
"Life is good. I am a blessed man," Perry said at the St. Louis event.
