The Outsider| A Rudy Guliani 2000 timeline

Who should be the 2000 democratic nominee

  • Al Gore

    Votes: 13 54.2%
  • Bill Bradley

    Votes: 12 50.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • Total voters
    24
Are you abandoning your old TL?
No
But Giuliani had cancer in 2000
In this timeline Giuliani doesn't get cancer and never has an extramarital affair.
Wouldn't he just run for senate?
In this TL he decides against it and focuses on a run for president.

March 19th 1999

Rudy Giuliani walked on to the stage.



“Hello my fellow Americans! I feel that the presidency has been held by corrupt politicians for far too long. We need the a president who represents the will of the people! We need an outsider! So I will be running for president of the United States of America!


The crowd’s cheers exploded across the room. They were ready for a revolution.
 
After announcing his run for president Rudy Giuliani was pretty much unknown outside of New York. So he attacked all of his opposition intensely. He called Pat Buchanan a “neo-Nazi” and said “the only reason George W. Bush even has a chance is because of his family”. Giuliani's comments on his opponents made the establishment dislike him but it made his supporters like him more because he was “telling it like it is”. Because he was “telling it like it is” and that made him different than the “corrupt politicians” because he actually said what he wanted to say and not what the teleprompters wanted him to say. By September Rudy Giuliani was very popular.


September 6-7 polls

George W. Bush: 24%

Rudy Giuliani: 23%

Jack Kemp: 15%

Dan Quayle: 12%

Stevon Forbes: 9%

Fred Thompson: 5%

Newt Gingrich: 5%

Lamar Alexander: 3%

John Ashcroft: 3%

Bob Smith: 3%


After the polls Giuliani was feeling very good about himself. He was in second place and Fred Thompson, Bob Smith, John Ashcroft, and Pat Buchanan all dropped out. But they were replaced by Elizabeth Dole, John McCain, and John Kasich, who were all looking like popular candidates. However none of them would be as successful as Giuliani in the primaries…
 
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Giuliani running for President without his fame of being Mayor during you-know-what is interesting. Not certain he would be doing this well without that, as he became "America's Mayor" for a time after that, but I'd like to see where this goes.
 
This is from a 1998 article about speculative candidates in 2000.
Rudy Giuliani: He dresses in drag, fought President Clinton on welfare reform and supports affirmative action. It's hard to see how Republican primary voters would choose this pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay rights mayor of New York as their standard bearer, but that hasn't stopped the wild speculation. A staunch conservative at the top of the ticket might tap Giuliani for balance. He gets credit for sprucing up the Big Apple and cutting crime. But his silly protest over a bus ad revealed an awfully thin skin.
 
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