very much like our nation is divided today. and it was divided along racial lines as well. - basically, giuliani ran on a platform of dinkins is incompetent. - everybody in this city knows that david dinkins is incapable of making a decision. - he can t get the job done. and new york needs a law and order mayor. - this election is not about race. it s about crime, drugs, schools, jobs, healthcare. - endorsements from the city s four major daily newspapers are split at two and two. and most polls have this race at a dead heat. - who s gonna make things better for families in new york city? all: rudy! - who you gonna vote for on tuesday? all: rudy! [cheering] - that night, by 10:15, 10:30, the numbers are coming in. our final polling had rudy winning by 2%. and in the end he won by 2.9.
my son was denied his dream. but he s inspired hundreds and hundreds of people. - it cannot be overstated how the killing of amadou diallo became such a rallying point, a kind of symbol, immediately, for so much of the city. those 41 bullets became such a bright sign of how things were off the rails in terms of the relationship between the nypd and the community it served. - in the new york times cbs poll, 47% of new yorkers say the mayor s policies have led to an increase in police brutality. - rudy is not a man who says he does wrong. as far as rudy s concerned, he just keeps on going. - rudy was an opportunist, but rudy s ambition was always there. his need to prove himself was very great.
we re gonna end jaywalking, in a city where jaywalking has been and continues to be an art form. and, you know, new yorkers broadly responded like, what? - at first, people laughed when he launched a politeness campaign. - everybody has to be civil. - but the laughter turned to protest when giuliani put up pedestrian barricades, ticketed jaywalkers, and tried to restrict street artists. - like, the first time, he was mayor rudy. now he s king giuliani. - he just doesn t have it in him to ever admit he s wrong. that s the problem here. - rudy was an innate bully, someone who wakes up every morning looking to pick a fight he can win. - the people he begins to go after are really defenseless. and that is really acute in terms of policing. - the police department had been very much turned loose by giuliani. and being turned loose turned into abuse.
- rudy needs nurturing. constant nurturing from the women in his life. - i think rudy s choice of women shows an interesting paradox in his character. it must be said, he really as always gone for smart, accomplished, relatively hard-driving women. but they then have to make their life all about rudy. i think in his personal life as in his professional life, he is the king. and if you don t want to be a courtier, don t let the scepter hit you on the way out. - some voters wondered whether he had a heart. they believed that he had conviction. but they wondered whether he had compassion.
- nope, i m not gonna discuss the case. - in many ways, tactically, rudy was donald trump before donald trump was donald trump. - you say that she set up her own - yeah, i ve answered enough questions about. you know, you get to the point where it gets ridiculous. - he discovered and perfected the political art of maintaining really hostile relationships with the press and enjoying hostile relationships with the press. - then you can all spin it 5,000 different ways. - giuliani is really trump-like, i think, in his willingness to believe that all publicity is good publicity. - i think both of them, they kind of kind of peaked in a certain era. - trump at one point tells his campaign manager, every story is a good story about you as long as they don t accuse you of being a pedophile. and it seems that rudy giuliani has the same view of publicity. - he would always have this entourage that was, like, a security detail around him. in that inner circle, there were people