Giuliani supporters unfazed

He’s been buried in the national headlines, but Rudy Giuliani’s New Jersey supporters say that he remains a viable candidate.

He’s been buried in the national headlines, but Rudy Giuliani’s New Jersey supporters say that he remains a viable candidate.

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Newly sworn in Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean, Jr. said that Giuliani’s strategy is working as planned.

“I think it’s exactly where the mayor has been telling everybody he’d be from the very beginning. The Mayor is the only one running a 50 state strategy,” said Kean. “He knew he was not goign to win in Iowa, and the focus is on the states up on February 5th.”

Meanwhile, Kean’s father, former Governor Thomas H. Kean, has endorsed John McCain.

“And yes, we still talk to each other,” said Kean, Jr.

Similar sentiments about Giuliani’s strategy were echoed by most of his New Jersey supporters in the legislature.

“I think that Giuliani’s strategy probably will soon emerge,” said Assembly Minority Whip Jon Bramnick, who professed faith in the ability of Giuliani campaign manager Mike DuHaime, a New Jersey native. “He’s smart. He’s one of my favorites.

But one prominent Republican, former Acting Gov. Donald DiFrancesco, admitted that anxiety was creeping into some of Giuliani’s backers.

“I think people are disappointed that he’s not gotten off the ground yet. As a Giuliani supporter you feel anxious to get going, and from the stand point of even though it’s just Iowa and NH he hasn’t done that yet, and we think maybe New Jersey can do that for him,” he said.

Giuliani supporters unfazed