Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he’s voting for fellow New Yorker Donald Trump for president in the April 19 Republican primary. 
 
 “I support Trump. I’m gonna vote for Trump,” Giuliani told The Post Thursday. 
 
 Giuliani said he expects Trump will get more than 50 percent of the statewide vote and amass a lion’s share of New York’s 95 delegates. 
 
 “It’s a question of how much he gets over 50 percent. If he wins 70 to 80 delegates, Donald has a good shot of securing the 1,237 delegates to secure the nomination before the convention,” Giuliani said. 
 
 Giuliani said he met with Ted Cruz a few months ago, before the Texas senator blasted “New York values.” 
 
 He said Cruz’s dumping on New York “values” to score political points rankled him. 
 
 “It’s New York City. We’re family. I can make fun of New York. But you can’t!” he said. 
 
 “I know he was attacking liberal Democratic values … I know. I fought to change those policies in areas like welfare reform and policing, as did Mike Bloomberg. … There was a better way to say it.” 
 
 Giuliani said he was concerned about the personal attacks in the GOP primary and urged both Trump and Cruz to stop fighting over their spouses. 
 
 He said he doesn’t agree with all of Trump’s positions but supports his focus on the economy, immigration and security. 
 
 “Trump is a negotiator. He negotiates from a high bar to get people’s attention. Threatening to withdraw from NATO will get a better deal with NATO,” Giuliani said. 
 
 A majority of New York’s county GOP leaders are rallying around Trump’s candidacy. 
 
 Giuliani shot down rumors that he was scheduled to meet with Cruz. He’s on Cruz’s turf in Austin, Texas, where he planned to have a courtesy meeting with Gov. Gregg Abbott. 
 
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 Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is planning to vote for local billionaire Donald Trump in his home state’s primary later this month – but isn’t officially endorsing him, a spokeswoman for Mr. Giuliani said. 
 
 Even without an official endorsement, Mr. Giuliani’s vote is a boost for Mr. Trump, who already has a firm lead in recent polls of New York Republicans ahead of the state’s April 19 primary. 
 
 Mr. Giuliani began informally advising the Trump campaign earlier this year and is a longtime friend to the businessman. 
 
 Mr. Giuliani, who was mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001, signaled his support for the former reality television star in February, when he told an audience at a private fundraising dinner in Peoria, Ill., that they should support a presidential candidate who brags about how great he and America are. He said only one candidate remaining in the GOP field was capable of bolstering the economy, and that “two of them don’t seem like they fit that category.” 
 
 Asked by an audience member to tell his best story about Mr. Trump, Mr. Giuliani—a former prosecutor who started his own law firm—said he never represented him because he has a tendency to haggle over money he owes. 
 
 “Donald, I never represented him, because he considers a legal bill the first offer in a negotiation,” Mr. Giuliani said. “You don’t want to represent somebody like that.” 
 
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– Donald Trump can count on a vote from Rudy Giuliani, just not a formal endorsement. A rep for the former NYC mayor says Giuliani will vote for Trump in the state's April 19 primary, reports the Wall Street Journal, which adds, "Even without an official endorsement, Mr. Giuliani’s vote is a boost for Mr. Trump." More explicitly, Giuliani tells the New York Post: "I support Trump. I'm gonna vote for Trump." A longtime friend of Trump, per the Journal, Giuliani has been informally advising the billionaire's campaign. And in February, he told attendees at an Illinois fundraiser that they should vote for the candidate who "talks about how great they are." Giuliani tells the Post that he doesn't support all of Trump's positions, but is on board when it comes to the economy, immigration, and security. "Trump is a negotiator," he says. "Threatening to withdraw from NATO will get a better deal with NATO."