The former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani was scheduled to deliver a speech on taxes at the Harris Corp headquarters in Melbourne, Florida, but instead he was forced to retreat to a secure location due to a bomb threat on Wednesday. The threat was made through an anonymous phone call made at the Harris Corporation at the same time Giuliani was arriving at the airport.

According to the Melbourne Police Department, Rudolph Giuliani’s name was not mentioned in the bomb threat. However, Giuliani’s security staff rushed him for safety in a nearby hangar, while former candidate for presidency Steve Forbes and Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said there was nothing to worry about to the remaining guests and journalists.

One hour later, and several hundreds guests missing, Giuliani delivered his tax reform plan, which he said will include the largest cut in taxes in the history of the United States, also mentioning that his proposal included a 10 percent tax for $40,000 income, a 15 percent tax for 110,000 income and a 30 percent tax for incomes higher than $150,000. Whether that speech will convince his voters to keep him in the race still remains to be seen.

In the meantime, whether the idea of not focusing on Iowa and New Hampshire belonged to him or to his campaign managers, Giuliani did not do very well in the first two states round-up, and the first day in Florida did not exactly started as planned either.

Although no one mentioned Mr. Giuliani’s name in the bomb threat, Harris Corp representatives have said to the press that they did not recall a bomb threat incident as far as they remembered, which clearly leads to the conclusion that it is almost impossible for that to be a simple coincidence with Giuliani’s campaign start.

Giuliani however remains positive, and thinks no further of this incident that what it appears to be: just an incident. He is decided to win over Florida, and the next three weeks of campaigning will be essential for him in order to do that, hopefully with no other unpleasant incidents.