Julián Castro a young, Latino, former mayor with serious policy proposals on all the big issues. But he’s barely polling at 1 percent. What went wrong?
David Freedlander writes about politics and culture. He lives in New York.
“So if you get a strange phone call, maybe from an unlisted number in the next couple of days, please answer it,” Castro told his audience to laughs. “We are right there. We are this close to make or break point in the campaign,” Castro told me after the event. At one point when he was an undergraduate at Stanford, Castro and his twin brother, Joaquin, explored careers in local television news. Even today, the presidential hopeful can sound like a political pundit when he talks about his race. “Everything is on the line right now. I think we can make it to the September debate.
And yet Elizabeth Warren is the “policy candidate.” And Pete Buttigieg, seven years younger than Castro, is the Millennial Mayor candidate. Joe Biden is the one with better ties to the Obama administration. And even though Castro proposes taxing inheritances of $2 million or more, raising the capital gains tax rate, providing a $3,000 per child tax credit, paid family and medical leave and a $15 nationwide minimum wage, Bernie Sanders is the candidate known for fighting income inequality.
Top: Adelino Vellis, 10, holds a sign up for Julián Castro as he listens to him speak in a Bedford backyard. Vellis, a twin who is one minute older than his brother, just like Castro, loves history and politics and has seen several of the candidates speak this year, including Elizabeth Warren, who spoke in his own backyard. Bottom Left: A little girl wears a Julián Castro sticker on her shirt at the Hillsborough County Democrats Picnic in Greenfield.
Instead he moved back to San Antonio in 2017 and signaled his interest in running for president almost immediately. He started a PAC, Opportunity First, which raised a half-million dollars and supported “young, progressive leaders” around the country.
Hillary Clinton did slightly worse among Latinos compared to Barack Obama, even with Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric firing up nativists. Part of Castro’s pitch as a nominee is that he would change that calculus, that seeing one of their own onstage would mean that the quarter or so of the Latino electorate that now supports Trump would come his way in big numbers.
It was Luis Fraga, Castro’s mentor, who gave Castro the political philosophy that would be his guiding principle, what Fraga called in a book, the “informed public interest.” “My brother has this line that I wish I had thought of, that if you think it’s bad that all of these people want to come here, imagine how it would be if no one wanted to come here.”
“He has calmed down a lot since he was on the council,” Beldon said. “Julián is a pretty introverted guy. He has had to overcome his basic shyness. He doesn’t do theAt the first-floor restaurant of Castro’s Manchester hotel, As Castro sees it, the midterms, which saw Democrats gain 40 seats and grab control of the House, gave a candidate like him an opening. Secured of at least a foothold in the power structure, Democrats could take a second look at a different kind of candidate.
“As we saw in El Paso, Americans were killed because you stoked the fire of racists,” Castro said in the spot. “Innocent people were shot down because they look different from you. Because they look like me. They look like my family.” “The boys were always so much more reserved than Rosie,” said Dr. Laura Barberena, a San Antonio-based political consultant who worked on Joaquin’s first campaign and went on to work on both the Bill Clinton and Obama campaigns. “She is an activist—nobody can talk over her, and nobody wants to mess with her, and the boys were never much risk takers, but you see Julián now, and you really see the Rosie coming out of him.
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