NYTimes: Giuliani Says That Last Week’s National Elections Were Not a Major Rebuke to Republicans

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Published: November 13, 2006

WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Nov. 12 — In his first public comments about last week’s Democratic sweep of Congress, Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former Republican mayor of New York City, who is a possible 2008 presidential candidate, said on Sunday that he did not view the election as a major rebuke to his party. But he said that Republicans “have to go back to your principles in figuring out how you react to something like this.”

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