Rudy Giuliani flies to Miami, the land of the hanging chads, and some of his favorite cigar shops, on the day of what polls show to be an impending very-non-first-place in Iowa to tell America once again just where he plans to begin really winning the GOP nomination in three weeks.
Ready as ever to boast of how he flouts conventional wisdom, Giuliani set out way in advance to spin his losses in the first few primary states by playing up the contest here on Jan. 29. He has been assuring supporters he can hold his lead in big states while other candidates cancel each other out elsewhere.
Do the math, he says. Iowa has 40 delegates, New Hampshire 12, and Michigan 30. But after Florida decides its 57 and Maine its 21 comes Super Duper Tsunami Tuesday when big states such as New York and California and more than 20 others determine 1,113 in all.
After a detour here today, he returns tomorrow to campaign in New Hampshire, where he also trails.
Several days ago his adviser Brent Seaborn, wrote rather grandly in a memo released to the news media that “history will prove us right.” He called the tactic of downplaying the earliest states “bold, innovative and designed to deal with the radically different election calendar.”
His battle plan thus has him standing outside the war zone of the moment and rooting for the other guys to sustain casualties.
Dan Janison in Miami
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nice article. could do w/o the 5 guys staring at me on the left hand side. eew. bad mug shots.