Following up on earlier reports that he had decided to drop out of the New York Governor’s race, it now sounds like Rudy Giuliani has other political ambitions:
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided against running for governor, but is strongly considering running for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News.
The Republican heavyweight was considered the GOP’s best shot at reclaiming the governor’s mansion.
The only declared candidate on the Republican side is little-known former Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio.
One source said Giuliani is prepared to run for U.S. Senate against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010 to fill out the remaining two years of Hillary’s Clinton’s term.
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If elected to the Senate, one source said, Giuliani could use that as a stepping stone to run for President in 2012 – rather than run for re-election to the Senate.
Personally, I don’t buy, at least not the part about Giuliani running for President only two years after he would have run for a Senate seat in one of the largest states in the Union.
Not only that, but I can’t imagine that Giuliani is seriously considering the possibility of running for President in 2012. Just one year ago, he ran one of the biggest crash-and-burn Presidential campaigns in modern American political history, and when it was all over he had spent more than $ 50 million dollars to win a single delegate.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
