Rudy Giuliani says that the crowds he saw were full of voters who in other years might cast their ballot for a Democrat. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Giuliani: Trump doing better among Dems, Independents than Romney

Donald Trump may be struggling to earn the support of some traditional Republicans, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday morning, but the real estate mogul is more than making up for it by drawing new voters into the GOP tent.

Fresh off a swing of campaign stops in Florida on behalf of the GOP nominee, Giuliani told Fox News’s “Fox and Friends” that the crowds he saw were full of voters who in other years might cast their ballot for a Democrat. That observed shift in the electorate, Giuliani said, has left pollsters using outdated models to generate inaccurate results.


“First of all, you are using a 2012 model for a 2016 election, which is a totally different kind of election. So let’s even, when you count ballots, more Republicans have returned ballots than Democrats, or more Democrats have returned ballots than Republicans,” Giuliani said. “But there's no way of knowing -- Trump is probably not getting the traditional percentage of Republican vote. Probably getting a high percentage, 78, 80. Probably not getting 90. But he's probably doing a lot better among Democratic and independent voters than Romney did.”

“He has much more of an appeal. Like a lot of those people there yesterday in Florida, I can tell,” the former New York mayor continued. “They were blue collar, ordinarily registered Democrat who will vote for the more conservative Republican candidate.”

With just two weeks left before election day, Giuliani teased “a couple of surprises” from the Trump campaign but answered with only a chuckle and “you’ll see” when asked what those surprises might be. He predicted that the recent revelation in the Wall Street Journal that a political action committee linked to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a close ally of the Clintons, donated almost $500,000 to the campaign of the wife of an FBI official would have a sizeable impact on the presidential race.

“I call them surprises in the way that we're going to campaign to get our message out there, maybe in a little bit of a different way. You'll see,” Giuliani said. “And I think it will be enormously effective. And I do think that all of these revelations about Hillary Clinton, finally, are beginning to have an impact.”