The New York Times has a must read piece today about Rudy Giuliani’s crumbling presidential campaign, specifically on how some of his strongest supporters back home are doubting his ability to pull off a win in the January 29th Florida primary.
Here are the best parts:
But if Mr. Giuliani is relegated to a distant second or worse in Florida, even some of his supporters acknowledge that New York’s primary one week later would most likely be up for grabs, with Senator John McCain of Arizona and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts being Mr. Giuliani’s strongest rivals. Like Mr. Giuliani, both are fielding full delegate slates in all 29 of the state’s Congressional districts.
“If he carries Florida, he carries New York,” said Fred Siegel, a Cooper Union historian who has served as an adviser to the former mayor and written a largely admiring biography of him. But winning Florida would require “a miraculous comeback,” he said, adding: “I wouldn’t bet on it.”
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“I have a feeling that the sag in Florida and the sag in New Jersey will probably be matched by a sag in New York,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac Poll, which plans to release a new New York poll next week.
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There are also concerns among Giuliani supporters that if he does not gain momentum before Feb. 5, he will have to spend precious funds just to win New York, where advertising is particularly expensive.
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[Former New York Governor George] Pataki said through a spokesman, David M. Catalfamo, on Wednesday that he was “continuing to evaluate all the candidates and will make an endorsement sometime in the future.”
Wow. When some of your advisers and strongest backers are publicly predicting your demise, even in your own home state, and when your own former Governor and fellow Republican says he still needs some time to make a decision on who to support, I would suggest you start planning your post election vacation plans now.
I hear summer in the Hamptons is just spectacular.
(Cross posted at The November Blog)
1 Response to “Even Some Of Giuliani’s Strongest Supporters Admit He’s Toast”
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haha and adviser who is not asscociated with the campaign and a governor who rudy didn’t endorse (choosing cuomo instead) are your sources??!?!?!?!?!?!? hahahahahaha, the only person who can beat rudy in any of those states is mccain, which is a win-win situation. i cnat believe you used pataki of all people he hates rudy ahahahhaaha you can’t even get your spin right anymore fellas.
Left by matt
January 18, 2008 at 12:28pm