Rudy: 'We're gonna win today'
Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:38 AM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC/NJ's Matthew Berger
SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. -- Giuliani worked to get out the vote in the Miami suburbs Tuesday, and continued to dodge questions about future plans if he does not win the Florida primary.
“We’re gonna win today,” Giuliani said while sitting at the counter of the Wolfie Cohen's Rascal House diner, munching on cereal and coffee with Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum. “That’s our answer. We’re gonna win today.”
Giuliani started the day with a series of television interviews, and reiterated that he intends to travel to California either tonight or tomorrow and participate in the CNN debate on Wednesday.
But while campaign aides continue to defend their strategy to largely bypass the early primary states, Giuliani seemed to acknowledge the pitfalls of the strategy. He told interviewers that other candidates were able to garner momentum from early wins and that watching other candidates win “hurt” his fund-raising efforts.
“That’s what happens with these things, you get one win and get a tremendous amount of momentum,” he told CNBC’s Squak Box. “That hurts us in the early primaries because other people have won. That’s the biggest impact we’re feeling. If we win this it changes everything.”
Baseball and politics
From NBC's John Yang
Giuliani tossed a baseball with aides in the parking lot of his Broward County office. A woman approached him: "Do you remember the 1960 World Series when my Pittsburgh Pirates beat your New York Yankees." He quickly named the Bill Mazeroski home run and challenged her to name the left fielder over whose head it sailed (Yogi Berra).
He also remembered a foreign policy credential: He taught Koizumi how to throw out an Opening Day first pitch.
