It's official: Tim Pawlenty is running for president

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.

Update: Backtracking?

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