With Republicans’ wins in the New York suburbs in local elections yesterday, some Republicans say it could help encourage former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Gov. George Pataki to run for statewide office next year.

Despite the widespread belief before Election Day that neither would run next year, both have not said what they will do—either Giuliani running for governor or U.S. Senate against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, or Pataki against Gillibrand.

Sen. George Maziarz, R-Newfane, Niagara County, said both of them would have consider their options after Republicans picked up seats on the local level Tuesday across New York.

“Pataki running for U.S. Senate, Rudy for governor? I think it’s an unbeatable team,” Maziariz said, adding after Tuesday’s elections “”I think it certainly makes the landscape look a whole lot greener and their chances of winning better. I think you have to take a second look at it.”

Former Rep. Guy Molinari, R-Staten Island, spent Saturday campaigning with Giuliani in Staten Island and New Jersey, but he said he doesn’t believe Giuliani has made a decision.

“He runs hot and cold on whether he wants to run again or not,” Molinari said. “I’m trying to convince him that he should run again, that the people really need somebody like him.”

Molinari said he doesn’t believe Tuesday’s results would have much of an impact on Giuliani’s decision.

“Rudy is Rudy,” he said. “Rudy is either going to run or not based on how he feels. He’s not a guy who looks at statistics and worries about the fact that maybe it doesn’t look, maybe he could win, maybe he can’t win.”

One date being eyed as a potential time for a Giuliani announcement, or at least for an indication on which way he’s leaning, is his planned speech Nov. 16 to the Molinari Republican Club on Staten Island.

As for Pataki, he has been contacted by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and people across the state to run against Gillibrand, aides said. And polls have shown him ahead.

But spokesman David Catalfamo said the former governor has not made a decision. He said a decision would likely be made before year’s end.

“He’s deeply concerned about the course that our country is on and about some of the policies that are being implemented, and because of that he’s taking a serious look at it,” Catalfamo said.