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Adding to the turmoil surrounding his campaign, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has closed the doors to his South Carolina headquarters.

Katon Dawson, who serves as Perry’s state chairman, confirmed to CNN that the campaign’s office in Columbia has closed down, with the campaign staff moved out and temporarily working out of his own offices at Dawson Public Affairs.

CNN has moved its primetime Republican debate from 9 p.m. EST to 8 p.m., eliminating the long gap between its main event and the earlier forum for second-tier candidates, the network told campaigns in a conference call Tuesday afternoon.

In a state that prizes retail campaigning, nothing is more revered than “the full Grassley” — a politician’s visit to all of Iowa’s 99 counties, named for the state’s peripatetic senior senator, Charles E. Grassley.

ust how dead is Rick Perry’s presidential campaign? His fingers and toes have gone cold, he can no longer keep solid food down, and his gurling inhalations signal his imminent relocation to a hospice and not the White House. I kid. But not much.

Despite ongoing fundraising woes, Rick Perry’s presidential campaign recently resumed paying one staffer each in Iowa and South Carolina — meaning the former Texas governor will meet the minimum required number of paid staffers to qualify for the CNN Republican debate on Sept. 16.

Donald Trump has built a bigger, more enduring lead in the polls than nearly anyone expected. He’s also upended the race for the Republican presidential nomination in another way: almost all the other candidates can be defined by their reactions to Trump.