Julián Castro made a compelling case that black and Hispanic voters should take him more seriously as a contender than they have been. zakcheneyrice writes
Julián Castro. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images So far, the Democratic candidates presumed to be in the best position to challenge Joe Biden’s polling lead among black and brown voters have been senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. Both are black and have spent significant energy courting voters in South Carolina; the Democratic electorate in the state was 60 percent black in 2016, and its primary is viewed as an early bellwether for both of their odds.
The former-HUD secretary touted his proposal by citing the human costs of the policing status quo. “I was in Charleston not too long ago,” Castro said on Wednesday, “and I remembered that Dylann Roof went to the Mother Emanuel AME church, and he murdered nine people who were worshiping, and then he was apprehended by police without incident.
As far as immigration, the former HUD secretary boasts the closest thing to a progressive alternative to the Trump administration’s draconian policies, which Democrats have loudly decried but often failed to offer a coherent countermeasure to.
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