Rudy Giuliani’s daughter has endorsed Joe Biden for president in an essay for Vanity Fair, writing that in this historic election “none of us can afford to be silent”.
“My father is Rudy Giuliani,” Caroline Rose Giuliani said in the magazine. “We are multiverses apart, politically and otherwise. I’ve spent a lifetime forging an identity in the arts separate from my last name, so publicly declaring myself as a ‘Giuliani’ feels counterintuitive, but I’ve come to realise that none of us can afford to be silent right now.”
The younger Giuliani, a director, actor and writer who lives in Los Angeles, endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and voted for Barack Obama in 2012. She writes that since childhood she has engaged in debates with her father about policing and other issues.
“It felt important to speak my mind, and I’m glad we at least managed to communicate at all. But the chasm was painful nonetheless, and has gotten exponentially more so in Trump’s era of chest-thumping partisan tribalism. I imagine many Americans can relate to the helpless feeling this confrontation cycle created in me, but we are not helpless. I may not be able to change my father’s mind, but together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office.”
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, is a personal lawyer to Donald Trump and has been one of the president’s loudest endorsers, whether during the Russian investigation, the president’s impeachment or the coronavirus crisis.
With less than a month before the November  3 election, Giuliani is back in the spotlight with claims to have found incriminating evidence on a discarded computer of Joe Biden’s son Hunter. Twitter and Facebook have been restricting the dissemination of the New York Post’s article reporting the unlikely and unsubstantiated claim.
Meanwhile, a Republican senator told constituents that President Donald Trump mistreats women and uses the White House as a business, according to a leaked phone call recording.
Nebraska senator Sasse said Trump is “TV-obsessed” and “narcissistic”, has driven US allies away and toward China, and has deeply damaged the Republican Party.
Sasse accused Trump of ignoring China’s oppression of Uighurs and the Hong Kong democracy movement. “He hasn’t lifted a finger on behalf of the Hong Kongers,” he said.
“It isn’t just that he fails to lead our allies, it’s that the US now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership.”
Sasse also said Trump “spends like a drunken sailor” and mocks evangelical Christians, an important Republican voter group, behind closed doors, while taking aim at “the way he treats women.”
“His family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. He has flirted with white supremacists,” he continued.
Sasse, who is running for reelection, said in the phone call that he has never been a supporter of the president, and warned that Trump’s “likely” loss in the November 3 election could also end Republican control of the Senate.