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Originally Posted by Crawford
Here's a quote on illegal immigration. Is it Giuliani or AOC?
"Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens. If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair."
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Giuliani moved rightward to gain relevancy in the national Republican brand of Bush, DeLay and Limbaugh.
He ran a horrible 2008 campaign, focusing on appealing to NY transplants in Florida to win the nomination instead of campaigning in Iowa, S.C. and NH.
If Giuliani was the 2008 Republican nominee, he would have have ran a tough campaign against Obama; he would not be the first black man he ran against for an office; David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani had a frosty relationship and ran against each other in 1989 and 1993, and almost again in 1997.
New York City in the 80s and 90s were racially divided; the NYPD did unfairly abuse black people (Louima, Dorismond) under Giuliani's watch; Obama would have brought these things up anyway.
However, some of the people who liked some of the Giuliani's law and order message were outerborough white ethnics like the Italian-Irish in Bensonhurst, Howard Beach, Staten Island, Throggs Neck, Douglaston, etc.
Some of them live in the NJ suburbs (Verona, etc.), some of them live in LI (Seaford, etc.) They like Rep. Pete King and other law and order Republicans; some of them like moderate Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton (they voted for her Senate races in 2000 and 2006, and some probably liked her in 2008, but when she joined Obama's cabinet in 2009 and ran for president in 2016, they soured).
A lot of them voted for Trump.
They like Christie, Trump, Giuliani, the NYPD, NYFD, PBA, etc.
They listen to talk radio icons like Mike Francesa, Boomer Esiason, Michael Kay, Stephen A. Smith (sports), Rush Limbaugh.
This part of the Northeast is heavily Democratic, but they are conservative pockets of the city of NYC and the suburbs.
A lot of them don't like Colin Kaepernick.