'Emotional storm': Rudy Giuliani's daughter shares 'painful' break with dad over election

Fearing her father will eventually end up in prison for his efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, Caroline Giuliani said the high stakes of the 2024 presidential election drove her endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris – which she still hasn’t spoken to her famous father about.

“It was definitely not a decision I came to lightly,” said Giuliani, daughter of former New York City mayor and Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in an appearance on CNN Wednesday night. It marked her first television interview since her Sept. 30 endorsement.

“Figuring out how to articulate these feelings with the storm that I’ve been experiencing the last few years – the emotional storm – was really hard and also figuring out if I had the fortitude to share it knowing that it could definitely damage my relationship with my dad in the last years of his life was really, really painful,” she said.

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Giuliani told Erin Burnett on her show “Out Front” that Trump again becoming a presidential candidate “all felt kind of surreal,” before launching into issues that urged her to support Harris over the former president involving the environment, democracy and her hopes of being able to raise her future children in a country where they “feel safe and respected.”

“It was like I can't believe this is really happening after everything that he's done to our country, after being the first president to not participate in the peaceful transfer of power, like it didn't feel real,” the 35-year-old writer and filmmaker said, adding that “the stakes all hit me at once.”

Giuliani said she hasn’t yet spoken to her father, who has been plagued by legal and financial troubles, about her endorsement decision “and probably won’t for a while.”

“I’ve always made my opinions clear, and he does know that I was raised to speak my truth, so I don't think any of it will come as a surprise to him,” she said. “I hope he knows that I love him.”

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