By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa August 22 at 7:31 PM
Rudy Giuliani is finally running the race against Hillary Clinton that he first contemplated some 17 years ago: a brutish bout under a white-hot spotlight.
Only he’s doing it at the behest of his longtime friend Donald Trump.
The former New York City mayor, who nearly ran against Clinton for the Senate in 2000, has emerged this summer as one of Trump’s most incendiary advocates and alter egos, channeling and feeding the Republican presidential nominee’s pugnacious instincts and dark suspicions.
Together, Giuliani and Trump are turning an already-roiling campaign into a street brawl in keeping with their city’s political tradition — each man carrying personal grudges and considering no attack out of bounds.
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