“My gut tells me right now as I look at it that Gingrich might actually be the stronger candidate.” said Rudy Giuliani on CNN last night, “I think he can make a broader connection than Mitt Romney, as I said, to the — to those Reagan Democrats where you won’t have this barrier of possible elitism that I think Obama could exploit pretty effectively.”
Giuliani compared Gingrich to Reagan, noting that people thought Reagan was “too right wing” to win and had a tendency to “say incendiary things.”
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Giuliani also suggested that this race was very similar to the 2008 race, when John McCain came from nowhere and took the nomination.
“Newt has his negatives. We all know them.” Giuliani admitted, “. . .but one of the strengths he has is he’s got a common touch, he’s able to talk to people, he comes from a poor family, understands poverty from that point of view. He doesn’t come from the American elite.”
