He will officially announce his run on CNN’s Piers Morgan tonight. The official announcement follows the coup of hiring Nick Ayers to manage his campaign. Ayers, 28, is considered a fundraising powerhouse. Ayers’ tenure at the Republican Governors Association lends him the experience of running campaigns on a national scale, and winning.
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As for Pawlenty, he has a serious record of accomplishment as governor of Minnesota, and of being a Republican leader in a blue state environment who can appeal to crossover voters. He starts out back in the pack in the polls, in the low single digits in the latest CNN poll.
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