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When Rudy Giuliani was running for mayor of New York in the 1990s, promising to clean up a crime-ridden city that citizens were fleeing, it was his preteen son Andrew tagging along, providing a bit of moral support.
Now, about 26 years later, it’s Rudy tagging along on Andrew Giuliani’s New York gubernatorial run offering support and ideas leading up to the June 28 GOP primary that also hinges on crime and taxes.
“I gotta tell you, as a son, it’s been such a blast to have my father out here. I feel like I just continually learn from him,” Giuliani told Secrets.
“This started when I was a little kid and watching him, you know,” he added.
Similar to his father’s mayoral agenda, Giuliani is campaigning on an anti-crime platform and a promise to make the state a better place to live.
“He’s out here, and he’s out here campaigning for me to try to get this over the finish line. But I think, I think he sees it, and I think in some ways, he gets upset, but he gets motivated at the sense that he looks at New York and sees New York’s potential. Obviously, he’s seen it. He’s seen this turnaround happen before,” said Giuliani.
In the latest effort to help his son, Rudy Giuliani said former President Donald Trump is opening his Trump National Golf Course facility in Bedminister, New Jersey, for a fundraiser on June 15 co-hosted by former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik.
“He’s opened up one of the most beautiful clubs in the country to us, and we’re very excited,” Andrew Giuliani told Secrets this week, adding that Trump has taken a special interest in the race.
“I speak with him multiple times a week. And he’s watching the race closely,” said Giuliani, 36, who worked in the Trump White House.
Several polls have Giuliani in the lead or near the lead of the GOP primary, which is notable since he has not held elected office before.
He credits a straight-talk style and barnstorming campaign for his success so far and compares his approach to onetime New York Gov. and President Teddy Roosevelt.
“He was relentless, right? Relentlessly optimistic about New York State and about America. And that’s the same kind of attitude that I tried to take to campaign,” said Giuliani.
“Maybe it’s having been on campaigns from mayoral campaigns to presidential campaigns, but I really do enjoy myself out here. I really do enjoy talking to New Yorkers and listening to New Yorkers as well. And I think, you know, I hope that at least shines through because I decided a very long time ago, Paul, that whatever I was to do, but certainly if I was ever to run for political office, the one thing I wouldn’t be is the politician that does the double talk. I wanted to make sure that New Yorkers knew that I was going to be genuine with them,” he said.
It’s a lesson Giuliani said he learned from his father and Trump.
“I think Americans get very quickly whether or not you’re genuine because you’re so exposed throughout the course of your day. And I think that’s one of the things that’s been a real benefit. I saw this working for Donald Trump and also, obviously being the son of Rudy Giuliani. The one thing I could say about both of them, which is very consistent, was they are the exact same guy when they’re on camera as when they’re off, you know. They just don’t change at all. And so, I think I learned that from a very young age,” said Giuliani.
