I’m getting somewhat conflicting signals from the Giuliani campaign about the Times report on his new strategy on abortion. On the one hand, they don’t want anyone to think that his position on abortion has changed — it hasn’t — and they don’t want anyone to think that anyone at the campaign was in any way unhappy with his public statements on abortion. But they’re not saying the Times story is inaccurate, either. In other words, absolutely nothing was wrong, and now they’ve fixed it.

It sounds to me like Giuliani has probably sharpened his position statement on abortion, something he desperately needed to do after the candidates’ debate at the Reagan Library. In any event, we’ll know more tomorrow morning, when Giuliani goes to Texas to speak at Houston Baptist University. He will take some questions after his remarks, and it’s likely the subject of abortion will come up and we’ll hear his newly focused statement. After that, the next opportunity to hear Giuliani on the subject will be the Republican debate in South Carolina on Tuesday.