Iowa Rep. King Blasts Perry for Upstaging Straw Poll

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is set to announce his presidential candidacy Saturday. And Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King isn’t happy that he’s doing it the same day as the Iowa Straw Poll, detracting attention from it, The Hill reports.

“Rick Perry has strategically decided he’s going to try to step on the Straw Poll by making his announcement concurrent with the Straw Poll itself. . . . His effort is to diminish the Straw Poll, and if you diminish the Straw Poll, you diminish the Iowa caucus,” King told The Hill Thursday. “Iowans understand this. Does he think we’re a bunch of country bumpkins?”