“Rudy is not going to win the primary with those positions. He and Hillary are the head and the tail of the same coin. That’s not a choice.”
Rudy’s political calculation is that conservatives’ hatred for Hillary Clinton is MUCH greater than their distaste for him. He believes that conservatives will hold their collective noses to stop a Hillary Clinton presidency. Whether he is right or wrong on that remains to be seen. The Republican primaries will tell the tale.