Australia

Aussies for Rudy

Meet Tim Crotty and Lila Moosad, vacationing educators from Australia who spent a small part of their afternoon enjoying the weather in City Hall Park. Today is only the first full day of their weeklong trip in America, but they’ve already formed opinions about the president elections here.

Crotty's take: “If somebody like Giuliani was the candidate for the Republican Party, it would be a nice change from the sort of people they’ve had over the last decade or two.”

Crotty goes on to say Giuliani would be pretty popular where he comes from. Or at least, “More popular than your current president."

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