Castro says key to Democrats winning presidential race won’t be taking ‘safe route’
Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro said Wednesday that the best way to beat President Trump in the 2020 election may not be through the “safe route.”
When asked by Sirius XM’s Dean Obeidallah about the lack of diversity among the current front-runners in the Democratic primary, Castro replied, “I don’t take anything away from the people that right now are leading the pack.”
{mosads}”But there’s also this anxiety among a lot of Democrats today,” Castro continued, “this thought that the best way to beat Donald Trump is the safe route.
“And they equate that with a certain profile of candidate.”
The Democratic race is currently being dominated by former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), with South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) also seeing a rise in recent polling.
According to the RealClearPolitics polling index, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is the highest polling person of color in the race nationally, at 4.7 percent.
Democrats, Castro asserted, need to replicate what former President Obama did during his first presidential campaign and “ignite this young, diverse coalition of working-class people and people across the country that are going to get off the sidelines and into the voting booths.”
The former San Antonio mayor served as Obama’s Housing and Urban Development secretary during his second term.
While Castro has qualified for all of the Democratic debates up to this point, he has yet to qualify for November’s debate and is polling at 0.7 percent nationally, according to RealClearPolitics’ average.
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