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#Andrew Giuliani considering run for NYC mayor in 2021

#Andrew Giuliani considering run for NYC mayor in 2021

September 12, 2020 | 9:09am | Updated September 12, 2020 | 9:57am

Mayor Giuliani? Yes it could happen again.

While the 76-year-old former occupant of Gracie Mansion won’t be returning to his old job, his 34-year-old son Andrew is taking a hard look at running for mayor in 2021.

“I am certainly thinking about it. It’s something that a bunch of people that I trust have approached me with,” the younger Giuliani told The Post. “It’s been terrible to see over the last few years how the city has spiraled. I am afraid if the right candidate doesn’t win in 2021, four more years of de Blasio’s policies will remind us of the 80s.”

“Mayor de Blasio’s administration has failed New York as he does not value the New York Police Department and he does not value what they have done for the city,” Giuliani continued, singling out recent budget cuts and the disbanding of the NYPD’s undercover anti-crime unit.

Andrew Giuliani has spent more than three years working in the White House as a public liaison assistant to President Trump and — like his father — has developed a close working relationship with the billionaire. They sometimes meet four times a week when things get busy. His portfolio involves interfacing between the White House and a variety of business, nonprofit and other groups.

“We deal with everyone from Tim Cook to Kim Kardashian and everybody in between,” he said.

Giuliani, who once aspired to be a professional golfer, also occasionally hits the links with Trump.

President Trump walks with Andrew Giuliani outside the White House in 2017.
President Trump walks with Andrew Giuliani outside the White House in 2017.Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead

“I am a couple of strokes better,” he laughed, adding that he preferred being on the president’s team. “You always want to be careful about beating your boss.”

Giuliani stressed that his energies right now are focused on reelecting the president before attending to his personal ambitions.

“I am trying to make sure the president gets over the finish line on November 3rd and then right after that my focus is going to be on how we can save New York City again,” he said.

Giuliani said he’s been mulling running for the city’s top job with his father for the past six weeks. Rudy Giuliani served as mayor from 1994 to 2001 and is widely credited with curbing out-of-control crime and leading New York through the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

If he did seek the Republican nomination, Andrew Giuliani would potentially face stiff resistance from supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis, who is also considering a run — and has pledged to spend $100 million of his own money to win. The Giuliani and Catsimatidis families are personally tight and the elder Giuliani has spoken enthusiastically about John Catsimatidis potential run.

If he doesn’t ultimately pull the trigger, Andrew Giuliani said he could only support a candidate who followed what he called the “Giuliani playbook” of governing the city.

“It’s broken-windows policing, it’s empowering the NYPD to do their job, it’s bringing the private sector in and making them more accountable for creating economic opportunity, it’s reintroducing the free market to some of these low income communities in New York City that have been stuck on the cycle of government dependency for so long,” he said. “The nucleus of all of it is public safety. It’s making sure that New Yorkers feel safe and that tourists feel safe coming here.”

Andrew Giuliani, whose mom is former TV newswoman Donna Hanover, Rudy’s second wife, has kept a low profile over the last two decades and may need an image makeover if he’s going to make a splash in the Big Apple. If New Yorkers remember him at all, it is likely for less than glorious moments — like when he sued Duke University for kicking him off the golf team in 2008 over acts of misbehavior (the case was later dismissed).

There was also his famously comical antics at his father’s first inauguration as mayor in 1994. As Rudy took the oath, then 7-year-old Andrew mouthed along with him, and blew kisses to the crowd from the podium. The moment was memorably lampooned by Saturday Night Live in a sketch by the late comedian Chris Farley.

“I never really tried to get past it. I just tried to live my life. But I do wish I could have had a chance to meet Chris Farley,” Andrew Giuliani said, remembering the moment.

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Andrew Giuliani stands at the podium during Rudy Giuliani’s inauguration in 1994.

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Rudy and Andrew Giuliani stand with Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

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Rudy Giuliani and Donna Hanover pose with their two kids, Andrew and Caroline.

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Since 2017, he’s been married to real estate executive Zivile Rezgyte, who — much to dad’s delight — he met at Yankee Stadium. So far there are no children, but Andrew says he hopes they’ll be on the way soon.

A mayoral run would also likely revive interest in the messy divorce between Rudy Giuliani and Hanover. Mayor Giuliani famously announced the couple’s split during a Bryant Park news conference in May 2000 — without previously informing Hanover. She took $6.8 million in an out of court settlement two years later.

“I have a relationship with both of them that I treasure,” Andrew Giuliani, a dead ringer for his mom, said. “Like any family we have our disagreements and my dad and I are two stubborn Italians — so those disagreements can get heated – but I am very blessed to have a relationship with both of them.”

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