Hanover, N.H.

During a pre-debate event at Dartmouth’s SAE fraternity house tonight, Rick Perry’s son, Griffin Perry, delivered remarks and held a brief question-and-answer session with a few dozen students. Asked whether his father has taken steps to distance himself from Pastor Robert Jeffress’s comments that Mormonism is a “cult,” Griffin Perry replied: “Absolutely.”

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