Rudy does play a pretty good fall guy. Remember Sweaty Rudy with the black hair dye dripping down onto his face during the first round of Election interference "hearings"?
Will we get that Rudy again, or will they be singing Rudy Can't Fail this time around? Either way it should be quite the show...
JFK Jr was not running for Senate when he died. I lived in NYC at the time. The favorite for Democratic nomination was going to be Nita Lowry.
Giuliani was the Republican candidate. Even if JFK Jr lived and decided to run he would have entered the Democratic primary. So Rudy would not have replaced him.
"If Hillary doesn't run and if Nita does, we will all rally around Nita," explains Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who quickly adds: "Obviously, Hillary is a more glamorous, well-known candidate. But that's the nature of politics."
JFK Jr is not mentioned at all. Why? He was not running for Senate. He was not even thinking about running for Senate. The stories that came out afterwards are ahistorical. JFK Jr was not seen as serious candidate for anything back then...certainly not the Senate.
Yes. He was not “official” candidate at that time, and certainly would not have gotten Dem establishment backing without serious arm twisting. He likely would have won as an Independent, imo.
However, a fair amount of evidence that he was lining up financial backers and seriously exploring a bid for the NY Senate seat in 2000. His non-establishment status and name recognition made him a serious threat to all NY Senate contenders.
However, a fair amount of evidence that he was lining up financial backers and seriously exploring a bid for the NY Senate seat in 2000.
There's not. I lived in NYC at the time he was seems as a lightweight.
He had a prestigious job in the district attorney's office but he failed his bar exam at least twice. He almost lost his job because he couldn't pass the bar exam.
He was seen as coasting on his name. He also explicitly shot down. Any idea that he was running for office and said he wanted to focus on his magazine?
He likely would have won as an Independent, imo.
I'm not sure any third party candidate has ever won an election in New York state, so it seems kind of like a rough way to go.
If a strong Democratic leading candidate ran as a third party, all I think that would do is would allow the Republican candidate to win.
I don't even know what the ideology/ circumstances of a strong third party candidate in New York would look like
Based on my limited review off the history, it appears that JFK Jr.'s "exploration" was a feint, and he was focusing on his magazine among other things as you say. However, it appears to have been an intentional feint just like Trump's feints in 1988, 2000, and 2008 Presidential campaigns. Unclear the exact purpose of doing this beyond the obvious raising of public profile.
Remember who ran against Hillary for that NY Senate seat in 2000 after JFK Jr. got taken out?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani
It appears “cancer” is better than Clintoncide.
Rudy does play a pretty good fall guy. Remember Sweaty Rudy with the black hair dye dripping down onto his face during the first round of Election interference "hearings"?
Will we get that Rudy again, or will they be singing Rudy Can't Fail this time around? Either way it should be quite the show...
JFK Jr was not running for Senate when he died. I lived in NYC at the time. The favorite for Democratic nomination was going to be Nita Lowry.
Giuliani was the Republican candidate. Even if JFK Jr lived and decided to run he would have entered the Democratic primary. So Rudy would not have replaced him.
This was the state of NY Senate race months before JFK Jr https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces2000/stories/lowey030299.htm
You can see that Lowry was "the other candidate."
JFK Jr is not mentioned at all. Why? He was not running for Senate. He was not even thinking about running for Senate. The stories that came out afterwards are ahistorical. JFK Jr was not seen as serious candidate for anything back then...certainly not the Senate.
Yes. He was not “official” candidate at that time, and certainly would not have gotten Dem establishment backing without serious arm twisting. He likely would have won as an Independent, imo.
However, a fair amount of evidence that he was lining up financial backers and seriously exploring a bid for the NY Senate seat in 2000. His non-establishment status and name recognition made him a serious threat to all NY Senate contenders.
There's not. I lived in NYC at the time he was seems as a lightweight.
He had a prestigious job in the district attorney's office but he failed his bar exam at least twice. He almost lost his job because he couldn't pass the bar exam.
He was seen as coasting on his name. He also explicitly shot down. Any idea that he was running for office and said he wanted to focus on his magazine?
I'm not sure any third party candidate has ever won an election in New York state, so it seems kind of like a rough way to go.
If a strong Democratic leading candidate ran as a third party, all I think that would do is would allow the Republican candidate to win.
I don't even know what the ideology/ circumstances of a strong third party candidate in New York would look like
Based on my limited review off the history, it appears that JFK Jr.'s "exploration" was a feint, and he was focusing on his magazine among other things as you say. However, it appears to have been an intentional feint just like Trump's feints in 1988, 2000, and 2008 Presidential campaigns. Unclear the exact purpose of doing this beyond the obvious raising of public profile.