Giuliani: 2016 vote has echoes of Andrew Jackson

Rudy Giuliani said the 2016 election will be remembered as a throwback to the populism of Andrew Jackson, a cantankerous leader whose distrust of the establishment is legendary.

“And Chris, I know you're a historian,” the former New York City mayor told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews late Tuesday. “This is like Andrew Jackson's victory. This is the people beating the establishment. And that's how he [Donald Trump] posited right from the beginning, the people are rising up against a government they find to be dysfunctional. And yes, it's a defeat for the Democrats, but this is a defeat for some Republicans too.”


Not only remembered as a populist, Jackson himself was the victim of some election shenanigans in 1824, in what became known as the “corrupt bargain,” as John Quincy Adams became president thanks to a vote in the House despite not winning the most popular or electoral votes.

But as the former mayor pointed out, Jackson would go on to win the 1828 election.