• Obama admin HUD secretary Julian Castro exploring a 2020 presidential run
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/12/julian-castro-makes-it-official-im-exploring-a-candidacy-for-president/amp/ Julián Castro, a former mayor of San Antonio and Obama administration Cabinet official, announced Wednesday he’s setting up an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential run, the first step toward joining what’s shaping up to be a large and diverse Democratic field. “Americans are ready to climb out of this darkness. We’re ready to keep our promises. And we’re not going to wait, we’re going to work,” Castro said in a video statement. “I’m exploring a candidacy for president of the United States in 2020.” An exploratory committee allows Castro to raise and spend a limited amount of money to test whether he can generate support for an official bid for the Democratic nomination through the months-long slog of caucuses and primaries set to get underway in February 2020. He said he’ll announce his intentions on Jan. 12 in Texas. Castro has been interviewing potential staff in early states and reaching out to supporters, potential surrogates and donors across the country, according to a person who’s familiar with his plans and wasn’t authorized to discuss them on the record. The person said Castro’s made up his mind that he will run. Castro, 44, served as mayor of San Antonio from 2009 until 2014 before joining President Barack Obama’s administration as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017. While he may be the most serious Latino candidate for the Democratic Party, it won’t be easy for Castro to stand out in a wide field of more than a dozen contenders that could include senators, governors, mayors and wealthy entrepreneurs. Castro, a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, may not even be the only Texas Democrat in the race: Representative Beto O’Rourke is also considering a run – and enjoying a burst of liberal enthusiasm after he narrowly lost a Senate race to Republican Ted Cruz in the reliably conservative state.
Castro for President would probably be the weirdest sentence ever for someone time-travelling in from 50 years ago.
I'd prefer Beto.
You know damn well the GOP is going to use that as leverage against him.
I mean, we already had a president Hussein...
Just the name Castro will stop a significant amount of Americans from voting for him. There's unfortunately no chance for this guy.
like Barack Hussein Obama?
I bet all the cuban vote over 35 votes against him simply because of the name
I wonder if his twin brother could be vp? Castro/Castro 2020
They say that, with a lever big enough, one could move the entire world. But there isn't a lever large enough to get the GOP out of this mess.
Keep in mind that we're talking about idiot reasoning Like idiots that will only notice a candidate's last name and moght forget about a middle name
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/us/politics/julian-castro-president-announce-.html
Goes back to the USA during the Cuban Missle Crisis. "Funny thing about Castro, we actually have a president named Castro in 2020 during a time where a large amount of our conservative politicians have been taking money from and praising Russia through their ex-KGB leader."
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