From the Daily News:
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to announce Tuesday he is not running for U.S. Senate or anything else in 2010, effectively ending his storied – and often stormy – electoral career, The Daily News has learned.
The announcement, at which he’ll also endorse Republican Rick Lazio for governor, marks the end of a year-long political dance by Giuliani, who mulled bids for governor and then Senate before backing away from both.
Well, that leaves John Cornyn holding a big bowl of nothing over at the NRSC. Will the Republicans manage to put forth a challenger to Gillibrand with a modicum of credibility, or will all their huffing and puffing add up to naught when it really counts next year?
(Hat-tip: Taegan)
Too bad nice, Democratic counties like Monroe and Westchester still vote for local Republicans…
Dodged a bullet in that Senate race. That would have been a massive waste of money.
And hopes they can break 40% in both.
Continuing a long history of not running for stuff (I would argue his presidential bid more or less counts as not running).
Defiantly good news and w/ Rudy not running Gillibrand is defiantly keeping her seat. Shes a rising star within our party and hopefully will remain a strong progressive leader bc god knows we need more of those.
I became pretty pesimisstic about it recently because the Republicans keep finding good candidates, polls like the Dorgan one come out or strong Democrats do not run. I even worried about New York and I knew that even though people should write off the race for Republicans, it would become really close. It’s great to hear some information that is good for the Democrats! Now if we can get Paterson out…
The best SSP headline this side of “Panic! At Tedisco”
🙂
Was he holding anything at all in the first place?
The curse continues! The last Mayor of NYC elected to higher office was John T. Hoffman, who won his bid for governor in 1869! Since then no one who has served as Mayor of New York has ever won any other higher office.
Although let me add, NY doesn’t choose Gov & Sen candidates until a convention in June.
If I was a Republican political consultant to Rudy or Pataki I would advice my client to lie low and jump into the race at the last minute at the GOP convention. Both Rudy & Pataki could have the nomination for the asking, they would have no trouble raising a ton of money quickly and the shorter the election campaign is in a Dem state like NY the better it is for both candidates.
This way they wont have to show their hand until the Dems do. This means Thompson or some other challenger doesn’t have the Rudy threat to keep him out of a primary and Patterson doesnt have a threat of a strong GOP opponent to give Cuomo an excuse to push him out.
I say dont celebrate these candidates not running until the NYS conventions. Until then I would be skeptical of this being a giant head fake. Because if Rudy really wanted to run staying out until June and the Dem situation is set for an election without him running and the parachutting in to “save the day” for the GOP would be the best strategy to winning for him.