What you need to know about Julian Castro.
Hillary Clinton will almost certainly be the Democratic candidate in November. This means she may well be the next president of the United States. Don’t let the hopes many of us have pinned on Donald Trump blind you to electoral reality. For the last quarter century, the Democratic Party has won the popular vote in every national election except one, and every year, the demographic shifts favor the Democrats.
While Mrs. Clinton is revolting to most people on the Right, the company she keeps (and remember the old adage: “personnel is policy”) is worse. And this brings us to Julián Castro, former Mayor of San Antonio, and President Obama’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. It has been rumored for some time that he will be Mrs. Clinton’s choice for vice president. Even if he is not on the ticket, his prominence in the Democratic Party and his aggressive campaigning for Mrs. Clinton over the last few months guarantee that Secretary Castro would play a prominent role in a Clinton administration.
Julián Castro is a white advocate’s nightmare. Here is a brief biographical sketch.
Radical son
Mr. Castro’s parents never married, and he was raised mostly by his mother “Rosie” Castro, a radical chicana activist. ...
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