Politics / Rudy Giuliani Rudy Nabs Primetime RNC Speech Former New York City mayor, candidate slated to speak on second night By Dustin Lushing, Newser Staff Posted Aug 14, 2008 10:19 AM CDT Copied Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani gestures speaking at a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov) Rudy Giuliani has tentatively been tapped for a primetime role on the second night of the Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minn., the New York Post reports. The former New York mayor and presidential candidate has thrown his support behind John McCain since dropping out of the race. Giuliani was a primetime speaker on the first night of the 2004 RNC in his native Big Apple. (More Rudy Giuliani stories.) Report an error