Posted on 01/25/2016 4:49:00 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Former New York Mayor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, who hasn't yet endorsed a candidate, said if it came down to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump versus Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), he would vote for Trump.
"If it came down to Trump or Cruz, there is no question I'd vote for Trump," Giuliani, who was mayor during the 9-11 terrorist attack, said. "As a party, we'd have a better chance of winning with him, and I think a lot of Republicans look at it that way."
The statement comes as The Washington Post is reporting that the GOP establishment is "learning to live with" the fact that Trump is likely to become the Republican Party's nominee and even seeing "an upside to Trump as the nominee."
"This warming toward Trump comes after establishment favorites such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) of Florida, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida governor Jeb Bush have failed to reach the top tier," reports The Washington Post's Robert Costa, Philip Rucker, and David Fahrenthold.
"Between Trump and Cruz, it's not even close," Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said discussing the two candidates, but not yet endorsing anyone. "Cruz isn't a good guy, and he'd be impossible as president. People don't trust him. And regardless of what your concern is with Trump, he's pragmatic enough to get something done. I also don't see malice in Trump like I see with Cruz."
The Post reports:
Many have decided that Trump -- for all his faults -- is better. For one thing, many Republicans in Congress especially despise Cruz, who has a history of picking long-shot fights and blaming other Republicans when he is unsuccessful.
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I asked you this before, I know... I appreciate your enthusiasm for Trump, and I'm dying to know...
Herman Cain and Donald Trump are in the ocean drowning. There is room in your raft for only one of them. Which one do you save?
Nice!
Yeah, thanks there Don-O. Got it. Appreciate you edicating the uneducated Trump voters like myself. Just keeping it real bud.
Why is it inetersting? Rudy is a liberal New York Republican.
Right up there with Dole. What a surprise. Birds of a feather.. more like a flock.
Don’t be so hard on yourself. Still time to get your mind right and come home.
Yup, talked the talk but didn’t walk the walk.
Isn’t Giuliani a gun grabbing RINO?
Where's the pic of Trump smooching Rudy in drag.
Will the FR Giuliani purge now be reversed?
Cruz and Texas are strange to him.
No princess; he will not get Uber Liberal NY State to vote for Trump. He’s not really that well liked by most New Yorkers, even before he decided to run for office. The GOP donor backing for him is the Liberal GOP elite type. It’s idiotic that there money is buying Conservative votes, based on what?
I find no one can state factually, any Trump policy or position that is more Conservative, more right, or not more equal than different to some GOP candidate, some GOP candidate who can articulate it better than Trump.
And I find quite a growing number of Trump positions that are far more like the GOP elite than all the others.
If I was looking for a conspiracy theory, I’d think FreeRepublic has been overrun with Trolls for Trump.
I shouldn’t be surprised, I guess (I mean, anything at all seems possible in this sillyseason electoral race we have now!) but I’m disappointed in Giuliani. I thought he had better judgment.
Wow you would be disappointed if Trump wins. He’s LYING. He is no more conservative than Romney
Well, Ted Cruz is going to win, and that’s the truth! Only someone who wanted to be President his whole life, or at least from High School, should be President! Trump took all that time off from politics to build a big company with his kids, and now he thinks he can jump into the race a take it away from people who have worked the system all their lives to become President! As if a Big Company means anything in American politics. Trump should have to ask the rich people for money like all the rest of the candidates. It is just not fair! Not fair!
I am no great genius but I have been conned enough to spot a con man.
I’ve also stayed in trumps crappy hotels, gilded Howard Johnsons
Happy you think you’ve found your savior. You will be disappointed
Somebody get a backhoe and push that carcass in a hole. It's really stinking up the place.
Trump is a leader. He learned many of his leadership skills in high school at the New York Military Academy, where he excelled for four years. His drill sergeants and officers inculcated personal qualities in Trump that he used in later life to succeed in business. He is clearly the best leader to come out of New York since Teddy Roosevelt. He would have done well at West Point or the military if he chose that profession.
Agree!
My savior is Jesus Christ. Donald Trump is running for President of a country that is under severe judgement for killing 58 million babies. It really doesn’t matter who wins the election. As the Queen of England said just before last Christmas, “Enjoy you last Christmas!”
Whoever wins the election doesn’t matter, because Obama is going to pull something that will prevent the Electors from meeting in January 2017. Could be Iran will bomb the USA with the Nuclear Weapons it buys from North Korea with the money Obama gave them. Commercial Babylon is fallen! fallen! fallen!
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