Andrew Giuliani, son of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is plagued with scandals, announced that he would be running for New York governor in 2022. It seems highly unlikely that he has a chance in hell of winning. Olivia Nuzzi of New York Magazine wrote about the peculiar Giuliani family dynamics taking center stage. Aside from working as an aide in the Trump administration, Giuliani has no political experience.
“I’m a politician out of the womb,” Andrew Giuliani told Nuzzi. “I’m my father’s son.” Andrew somehow sees his scandal-plagued father as an “asset.”
“If I didn’t use him as an asset, as an adviser, as somebody who I’d rely on, I’d be foolish,” he said.
Andrew and his father have had a strained relationship, at least in the past.
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“Rudy married his mistress in 2003; the kids took their mother’s side; and for long stretches of Andrew’s life, he barely spoke to his father,” Nuzzi writes. “During the 2007 Republican presidential primary, Andrew confided in the media. He told the New York Times that he had “a little problem” with his then-stepmother, Judith. Even now, a lifetime and two divorces later, Rudy is not in the 12-member family group chat that includes extended Giuliani relatives and close friends, according to Heather McBride, Andrew’s former babysitter, a member of the group chat who now serves as his spokeswoman.”
Apparently, Andrew has “daddy issues.”
“There’s pain and daddy issues that exist beneath this,” one longtime Rudy associate told the outlet, while a second longtime Rudy associate said: “What Andrew is doing is less about Rudy than it is about what Andrew is doing to process Rudy.”
‘When pressed to explain why he’s running a race he’s not just unlikely to win, but unlikely to get far enough even to have an opportunity to really lose, Giuliani says something like, “I think we have the best chance to win,”‘ the report states. “This is pure hunch. He cites no polling. No data. Just vibes.”
That sounds so Trumpian to deny reality. It’s not too surprising that Rudy was a shitty father, though.
You can read the full report here.
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