*Bump*
Come now. The Mayorship of New York city is incredibly prominent and important. You've also affected Rudy's political career if he managed it. In the OTL, he burned out. He ran for higher office as "America's Mayor", and started with earlier popularity, but got bogged down under things like his inability to not mention 9/11 and relate it to whatever he was talking about, and critiques of his leadership started to pop up. Maybe another term as mayor could act as a better incubator for higher politics, and certainly his tendency to relate everything to 9/11 would fly much better with New York City given the tragedy was especially local to New York City.