While stumping for a New Hampshire Republican, Giuliani called Joe Biden "dumb" and took a shot at Elizabeth Warren.
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While stumping for Kevin Smith, a Republican running for governor in New Hampshire, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani took a few shots at Democrats outside that race, including Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and Vice President Joe Biden.
According to a Granite State Patch.com news site, Giuliani slammed Warren, a Harvard Law professor running to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race, at an ice cream shop in Kingston, N.H.
The news website reports Giuliani said "We're going to have to elect Scott Brown to save us from 'You didn't build it' Warren," in response to a question from someone in the crowd asking who the former mayor would be campaigning for this election season.
Giuliani was referencing a statement Warren made in 2011 about business and government needing each other to be successful.
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own," Warren said a year ago. "You built a factory out there, good for you…but you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.”
The statement has since been repeated by Democratic President Barack Obama and used in attacks respectively by Brown and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in an attempt to paint the Democrats as unfriendly to business.
In 2010, Giuliani took shots at Attorney General Martha Coakley as she ran against Brown for the Senate seat vacated by the death of Senator Edward Kennedy.
At an earlier campaign stop for Smith in Salem, N.H. Giuliani took aim at Biden, according to the Salem Patch.com website.
When his phone went off during the keynote speech for Smith, Giuliani joked that it must be Biden calling because he "because he does not know how to dial the right number."
In an appearance on CNBC later in the day, Patch.com reports that Giuliani took his attack a step further.
"I gave the only response I ever give, which is an absolutely honest one," Giuliani said. "Here's why Joe Biden did it. Because Joe Biden is dumb."