Julián Castro’s campaign may look like it’s struggling now, but he’s a serious-minded candidate
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images Wednesday’s Democratic debate may have been the first time many voters heard Julián Castro speak, but on an occasionally frustrating night, he gave them something to remember. He stood out on an overcrowded stage with refreshingly strong answers on immigration and abortion rights, and at the end of the two-hour debate, people still seemed eager to hear more from him.
Castro was confident, succinct, almost angry at times. “It should piss us all off,” he said, when asked about this week’s widely distributed photo of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria, who drowned while crossing the Rio Grande on Sunday. He added later, “We should not criminalize desperation.
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