Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is touring New Hampshire this week, fueling speculation that he’s seriously thinking of entering the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Giuliani said that he’ll make a decision later this summer, but didn’t specify a particular date.
During a speech earlier today at an event hosted by the Seacoast Republican Women in Hampton, New Hampshire, the former mayor said that he would wage an entirely different kind of campaign than the one he ran in 2008, a much more down-to-earth approach where he could speak directly to the voters.
“Let them tell you what they really think,” Giuliani said. “And tell them what you really think.”
During his speech, Giuliani also took a swipe at President Obama, saying that the president’s policies are to blame for the country’s dismal economy. Another four years of Obama’s economic policies would be a “disaster” for the United States, he said.
Unlike some of the GOP hopefuls, the former mayor said that he has an economic record that he could realistically — and proudly — run on.
“I took over a city that was in comparatively horrible economic condition” — with a $2.5-billion deficit, 10.5% unemployment and 1.1 million people on welfare,” he said.
“By the time I left we had only 500,000 people on welfare; our unemployment was 5% and we had 500,000 new jobs, and I think the policies I put into effect helped to revive the economy of New York City,” he continued. “This president has had the worst record of any American president in my lifetime for dealing with the economy.”
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