Giuliani Launches First Ads In N.H., Iowa

Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday plans to launch a trio of radio ads in New Hampshire and in Iowa, highlighting his accomplishments as New York's mayor and promises he has made during the campaign.

"My focus when I ran for mayor of New York City was on the future, and it will be in this campaign," Giuliani says in one ad. "Leadership is about what we can do, what we can accomplish, never saying taking 'No' for an answer. This is all about how America can grow, how America can get stronger, how America can be the country that realizes all the potential we know we have."

The ads come weeks before Iowa's Ames Straw Poll, an early indicator of a candidate's strength. Giuliani and Sen. John McCain both plan to skip that contest, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is widely expected to win the Aug. 11 straw poll.

The new ads are not Giuliani's first. His campaign did a national ad buy earlier this year, but these are his first in the key early voting states. In them, Giuliani tells voters he overcame expectations and turned around New York.

"Every promise I made running as mayor of New York City they said couldn't be done, said I couldn't cut crime, New York City was the crime capital of the America — can't be done," Giuliani says.

A voice-over says crime dropped 56 percent during Giuliani's tenure. The unseen narrator also tells voters welfare rolls in New York City also dropped 58 percent and that Giuliani turned a $2.3 billion deficit into "a multibillion-dollar surplus and cut or eliminated 23 taxes."

The other ads emphasize Giuliani's 12 commitments to voters, broad statements about the candidate's views on budgets, security and values.