Debating in Reagan’s shadow, Giuliani bucks GOP field
SIMI VALLEY, California (CNN) — Front-runner Rudy Giuliani broke with the other nine Republicans in the party’s first debate of the presidential campaign, saying that it would be OK if the Supreme Court overturned its ruling on abortion rights but that he respected a woman’s right to choose.
“I hate abortion” and encourage adoption, the former New York City mayor said later in the debate. But he added that he “would respect a woman’s right to make a different choice.”
While the candidates are vying to follow one of their own, President Bush, into the Oval Office, another Republican loomed larger over the event — Ronald Reagan.
During the debate, which was held at the late president’s library with his widow, Nancy, looking on, the GOP hopefuls invoked his name 19 times.
“What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan … is that great sense of optimism,” said Giuliani.
“Ronald Reagan was a president of strength,” said former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Source: www.cnn.com
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