Julian Castro addresses potential presidential run in 2020

[TexasTowelie]

San Antonio native and former Mayor Julián Castro continued to fuel the 2020 presidential rumor mill in a recent interview.

Castro, who most recently headed the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the President Obama administration, sat down with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith during a taping of his KLRU show "Overhead with Evan Smith. " Smith asked him outright if he had plans to run for president in 2020.

"I've said very clearly that I'm not taking that off the table, that I'll look and see how things develop over the next year or so and then make a decision as to whether that's something that I want to do or not," Castro said.

On Twitter recently, Castro said the president who follows Donald Trump will have to spend 80 percent of their time fixing the executive branch of the U.S. government and rebuilding the country's leadership across the world and trust at home.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/politics/article/Julian-Castro-addresses-potential-presidential-11188181.php

[riversedge]

1. I hope he enters the Dem race.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I hope that the administrators

fix the issue with putting diacritical marks in the subject lines to threads before then, otherwise DU will be mocked for having Julin Castro as a candidate.

[chillfactor]

3. I would support either Castro brother! n/t

[Laffy Kat]

7. What about on the same ticket?

Prez and VP? I like them both. Not to mention we would give the Canadian Prime Minister a run for his money in the hotness arena.

[hamsterjill]

13. No. Joaquin needs to run against Cornyn.

We need Beto to kick Cruz's ass, and then we need Joaquin to go after Cornyn's!!!!!

[Laffy Kat]

14. Ooooh, okaaaay. nt

[bearsfootball516]

4. He's my top pick

I would really love it if he ran and won the nomination. I think he's got everything the Democrats need to knock off Trump in 2020.

[TexasTowelie]

6. I saw your earlier post

and I need to give you credit for the link so that I could get it cross-posted into the Texas Group. Thanks and welcome to DU!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Run for the US Senate instead. .......

Rafael Eduardo Cruz needs a formidable opponet in 2018. Julian Castro would be the one to defeat Cruz.

[Gothmog]

8. I am hoping that Joaquin will run for governor against greggie

[LeftInTX]

9. Yes

[Gothmog]

10. If Joaquin runs, then I have heard that Rep. Ancha may also run for Lt Governor

That would be a powerful ticket

[LeftInTX]

11. Oops....I thought this was about Julian

I'm hoping Julian will run.

Wouldn't Joaquin have to give up his House seat if he ran for governor?
He would be running for two offices at once.

I wish Julian would run.

[Gothmog]

12. That house seat is safe

Chairman Hinojosa can tell Julian apart from Joaquin but no one else can. Joaquin would be a good candidate for governor

Julian may have some issues that I can PM you about if want to know. These are rumors from my sources at the Texas Democratic Party