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The night before Julián Castro delivered the keynote address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention for President Barack Obamas re-election, he had eaten by himself at the T.G.I. Fridays not far from the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C.
No one recognized the 37-year-old mayor of San Antonio. As the other delegates party-hopped around Charlotte, Mr. Castro studied his notes over dinner and went to bed by 9 p.m. He wanted to be well-rested before giving the biggest speech of his political career a speech that he and his family now remember as transforming everything.
The next morning, when we walked down the street, he was just mobbed, said Mr. Castros twin brother, Joaquin, who is a United States congressman. It was this instantaneous example of how things can change so quickly.
Mr. Castros speech, in a prime-time slot, burst him onto the national stage, just like the one that had catapulted Mr. Obama to superstardom in 2004. Mr. Castro symbolized a new moment in American politics: The grandson of a Mexican immigrant with a fourth-grade education, the young mayor talked about his familys story, one so common for millions of Latinos and yet almost nonexistent at the highest level of national politics. My familys story isnt special, Mr. Castro said. Whats special is the America that makes our story possible.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/us/politics/julian-castro-2020.html
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