Does former New York mayor and personal attorney to then-President Donald Trump Rudy Guiliani’s endorsement of Curtis Sliwa for mayor of New York help or hurt Sliwa?
On the one hand, Guiliani is given credit for cleaning up the city when it was infamously known for its runaway crime rate. And if anything, New Yorkers recognize there’s been a backward slide in fighting crime in the past year. They want a repeat of the Guiliani crime fighting years so they can feel safe on the streets again.
But on the other hand, New York City is not only overwhelmingly Blue, but there’s a distinct distaste for anything Trump here. Although Republican Sliwa has been a crime fighting leader for decades, his endorsement by a man so closely aligned with the former president could be seen as a negative for the candidate.
Enter my guest, Elliott Gordon. Who offers the unique perspective of having worked on Guiliani campaigns for mayor and was an aide to then Mayor Guiliani. And who now is working on the Sliwa campaign.
Gordon has heard it all before. The argument that a Republican can’t become mayor of New York. Listen to what he says about the campaign, Sliwa’s chances and why he thinks the Guiliani endorsement can do nothing but help.
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