Out?

Rick Perry denies dropping out of 2016 race

By Nick Gass

Rick Perry flatly denied Donald Trump's assertion Thursday that he was bowing out of the Republican race, oddly remarking that "a broken clock is right once a day."

"The bottom line is I'm still here, I'm still working, and we need to be talking about solutions and not just rhetoric out there," Perry told Fox News' Gretchen Carlson.

Trump called out Perry during a press conference Thursday afternoon as one of his fellow opponents who has gone after him and subsequently suffered in the polls.

"Perry attacked me; now he's getting out of the race. He was at 4 or 5 percent, now he's getting out of the race, he was at zero," Trump said.

The former governor of Texas has no more paid staffers in the first primary state of New Hampshire and has suffered more staff losses in Iowa.

Perry remarked that Trump is not the first person to bring up immigration and border security as an important issue.

"One of the things that Mr. Trump brings up and, you know, appropriately so, but he's not the first guy to the party, so to speak, when it comes to border security and how to deal with that border security."