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Al D'Amato Shuns Rudy, Backs Fred Thompson

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Former Sen. Al D’Amato has spurned fellow New Yorker Rudy Giuliani and instead endorsed Fred Thompson for the Republican nomination for president in 2008.

"I think he can provide America with the kind of leadership that the people desperately need, and that this country needs,” D’Amato said about Thompson in remarks quoted by the New York Sun.

"And, you know, if America doesn’t have a leader that people can look up to, the world is in trouble.”

There’s been bad blood between D’Amato and Giuliani for years. In 1989, Republican D’Amato declined to endorse Giuliani’s bid for New York City mayor, and Giuliani reportedly blamed D’Amato for his loss to Democrat David Dinkins.

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  Then in 1994, Giuliani endorsed Democrat Mario Cuomo against D’Amato’s handpicked candidate for New York governor, George Pataki.

Thompson has not yet officially announced his candidacy, but he has given strong indications that he will run.

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