Get Of The Week: Michael DuHaime
December 13, 2006
| 4:38 PM
Q. How can Rudy Giuliani's team demonstrate to the media that they are serious about a presidential race?
A. DuHaime. 
Michael DuHaime is the RNC's political director, vice Northeastern regional political director for Bush-Cheney '04, vice successful consultant in New Jersey politics. A protege of Terry Nelson, McCain's campaign manager, and of Ken Mehlman.
His is unknown outside Washington and Republican circles; you can't Google his picture. Inside the Beltway, he is a rising star and a political natural.
Per the New York Times, he'll be Giuliani's campaign manager should the former New York City mayor decide to run.
For months, there has been – at least in Republican political circles – considerable skepticism over Rudy Giuliani’s interest in running for president in 2008, for two reasons: The first is that his views, well known from his two terms as mayor of New York, may be far too liberal to win the Republican presidential nomination. The second – and more striking – is that Mr. Giuliani has long been renowned for having a very close (some might say insular) circle of advisers, all of them from New York, and all tied to him through his career as a mayor, in the United States attorney’s office, and as a lawyer.
That perception is about to get knocked on its head.
It's the Get Of The Week.
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