Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York mayor and former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, is strongly considering running for governor of New York in 2022, he told Fox News on Wednesday.
“I’m considering it strongly,” Giuliani told Fox News in a telephone interview. “I’m going to Albany on April 19.”
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Giuliani said the county chairmen would be invited to Albany on April 19 by New York Republican Committee chairman Nick Langworthy, as well as ‘potential candidates’ to give their ‘seats’.
“I will make a decision at that stage,” Giuliani said. “I’m considering it strongly.”
Giuliani told Fox News he had been making calls from donors in recent days and weeks, trying to “decide if this is the right thing to do or not.”
Andrew Giuliani attends the ‘Big Break Dominican Republic’ show on the Golf Channel at Le Cirque on September 27, 2010 in New York City.
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Giuliani previously served in the Trump administration as a special assistant to the former president and as co-director in the White House public relations office.
Voters in New York may remember the memorable appearance of Andrew Giuliani as a young child at the inauguration of his father – where he raised his own hand during the oath of office – which led to his being featured on Saturday Night Live by Chris Farley was played.
Giuliani’s potential campaign comes as some Trump allies have garnered their support behind New York Congressman Lee Zeldin and urged him to submit a government bid in 2022.
Fox News first reported that Rep Zeldin, RN.Y., met with former President Trump last month with Mar-a-Lago.
While Zeldin has not made a final decision on whether he or she does not want to run in the race, and although Trump has not made an endorsement, sources close to the former president have said that Zeldin ‘a very strong candidate would be to help Republicans in 2022 ‘.
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“I can think of no other candidate who does not have Trump’s last name, and MAGA supporters are more excited about running for governor in 2022 than Lee Zeldin,” Trump’s senior adviser, Jason Miller, told Fox News said.
Zeldin – a four-time congressman representing the eastern half of New York’s Long Island, a lawyer and an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve – was first elected to the Suffolk County Congressional District in 2014. He was a strong ally and defender of Trump during his four years in the White House.
While New York is a reliable blue state where Cuomo won the third term re-election in 2018 by a massive margin of 23 points, the governor came under scrutiny as ten women raised allegations of sexual harassment against him on brought the neck, which led to an independent investigation by the Attorney General into the claims, and an indictment investigation in the State Assembly.
Cuomo vehemently denied the allegations against him and offered public support for the investigation into them.
Cuomo was also politically wounded by the nursing home crisis and was criticized after revelations that his government was concealing the full extent of the deaths associated with nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.