When he was just seven years old, Andrew Giuliani captured New York City’s attention when he upstaged his father who was being sworn in as mayor. Twenty-eight years later, it was Andrew Giuliani’s turn to take center-stage as a candidate for governor while his father sat in the audience and cheered at the state Republican convention on Long Island.

“I am more proud of my father today than I have ever been in my life,” said Andrew Giuliani on Tuesday.

What You Need To Know

  • Andrew Giuliani is running for governor as a Republican

  • His father, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, showed up at the convention Tuesday to convince committee members to vote for Andrew

  • But Andrew Giuliani lost the designation from the party to Lee Zeldin and failed to even secure a spot on the ballot

The younger Giuliani didn’t have much luck getting party committee members to vote for him at the Republican convention. But he did have one asset the other candidates did not have, his father, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

After serving two terms as mayor from 1994 to 2002, Rudy Giuliani was most recently known for efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. It’s an affiliation many New Yorkers would like to forget, but the Giuliani family leans into it. Andrew became the first candidate for governor at the convention to even mention the former president by name.

“Of the party of Donald J. Trump,” Andrew said to applause.

But Rudy Giuliani said he would not be asking Trump to endorse his son.

"That’s something for the future to consider. I like where it is right now. I like the President being neutral. And I would like to see, honestly for the good of the party, I’d like to see a fair and square primary," Rudy Giuliani said.

Like father, like son, the duo often have unexpected things that come out their mouths. At the convention, Andrew Giuliani gave his analysis on Italian-American voters in New York City in 1989.

“There are a lot of people who come up to me and talk about how proud they are for Rudy Giuliani in his work in overturning the five families of the mob," Andrew Giuliani said. "Probably might have cost him the 1989 election, because for some reason the Italian vote did not come out the way we thought in 1989.”

Then Rudy Giuliani tried to explain that city schools have been infiltrated by communists.

“The New York City school system is probably the one that was infiltrated the most by a union, I don’t think you’re stretching too far to say that it’s a communist union with the leadership," Rudy Giuliani said.

It was a day without many surprises, but the Giulianis kept things interesting.

Andrew Giuliani says he plans to petition his way onto the ballot by gathering signatures. That is no small feat without a large number of volunteers or hiring an expensive firm to collect them for you. Fundraising numbers for Giuliani have not been strong so far.