RUDY AWAKENING
Set to stump for son in NY gov race
Hurricane Rudy is about to hit New York.
Andrew Giuliani is unleashing his most potent weapon in his race for governor — his dad.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be stumping around the state wherever he is needed and vigorously make the case that GOP primary voters should support his son over Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin.
“I don’t think Lee is the right person at this time to be governor. I think he’s too weak,” the elder Giuliani said while leaving a New York Young Republicans event in Midtown Tuesday. The former mayor was still frothing at ballot challenges the Zeldin campaign had launched against Andrew Giuliani.
“Lee is willing to lie and be a stupid liar,” Rudy Giuliani snapped, adding that he couldn’t wait to spread the message to a wider audience in the coming weeks.
Giuliani, 77, certainly appears to have time to help out Andrew, 36. On Wednesday, he raised eyebrows after showing up as a contestant on “The Masked Singer” with a performance of “Bad to the Bone.”
The campaign is rolling out Rudy Giuliani on Sunday for a rally in Binghamton, NY. Plans are also in the works for a possible appearance at a Saratoga County GOP reception on April 29. High-dollar fundraisers are scheduled with friends in New York and in Palm Beach at the home of Beth Ailes, the widow of former Fox News boss Roger Ailes.
The state’s establishment Republicans have mostly lined up behind Zeldin, but his support has showed signs of weakness. Team Zeldin has touted polls showing them with a healthy lead, but Giulaini’s camp has pointed to other surveys that show the race as much closer and more than 3 in 10 voters undecided.
“In terms of going after Lee it’s no holds barred,” Andrew Giuliani told The Post.