Brother: Rep. Joaquin Castro mulling run against Sen. Cornyn

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Brother: Rep. Joaquin Castro mulling run against Sen. Cornyn

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and PAUL J. WEBER
February 28, 2019

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro said Thursday that his twin brother, Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas, is considering a big run of his own in 2020 — a bid for U.S. Senate against Republican John Cornyn.

“He’s considering that, but he really has not made a decision about whether he’s going to do that. I would imagine he would make a decision at some point soon,” Julian Castro told The Associated Press during a campaign stop in Nevada.

In Texas, no clear rival has yet emerged to take on Cornyn, who until this year was the No. 2 Republican in the Senate before being term-limited out of that leadership role.

Beto O’Rourke’s narrow loss to Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in November breathed new life into long-suffering Texas Democrats, who haven’t won a statewide office since 1994. As recently as last week, O’Rourke had suggested he may consider challenging Cornyn, but taking another run at the Senate is looking less likely as he promises to announce a decision soon on a 2020 presidential run .

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[elleng]

1. Will be fun to see those brothers 'on stage' at the same time!

And think of their proud family!

[oasis]

2. If I had a million dollars, I'd give him a big chunk of it to run.

[sheshe2]

3. Fifth Rec.

Rep. Joaquin Castro works for me as a senator! Twin bros running together.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Beautiful. Surely Texans are sick of such a hateful Senator. He is the pits. Horrible person. n/t

[Sucha NastyWoman]

7. Cornyn isn't nearly as repulsive as Ted Cruz

And Cruz still won.

But I would love to see Castro run against him and hope he could get Hispanics out to vote in mass. So maybe he would be a great choice.

[msongs]

5. identical twins, one senator, one president. hilarity follows as they switch places like

the prince and the pauper or that old hayley mills flick from the 60's theparent trap

[TexasTowelie]

6. Sema Hernandez from El Paso has already declared her candidacy.

She is a member of the DSA and ran against Beto O'Rourke in the 2018 Democratic primary.

I think that if Joaquin Castro enters the race he will have frontrunner status. He has a BA from Stanford and a JD from Harvard and the only hint of scandal I've read about him was that he got his girlfriend pregnant in 2013, but married her before the birth of a daughter. He also has a son that was born three years later. Having Joaquin on the ballot combined with a strong Democratic presidential candidate and dissatisfaction with Trump could be the ticket that turns Texas blue in 2020.