AT: For weeks, we’ve been anticipating a Texas U.S. Senate race between Senator John Cornyn and Representative Joaquín Castro in 2020.
Well, put away the placards, because Representative Castro is not doing it. This is from NBC:
Castro announced to Hearst Newspapers that he will not challenge the state’s senior senator, John Cornyn, a Republican in his third term. Castro said that if he did run again it would be for something that takes him back to Texas.
“Right now, I’m going to focus on my work in the House of Representatives. I’ve been doing what I feel is important and meaningful work here,” Castro told The Express-News.
Castro is the twin brother of Julián Castro, who is seeking the Democratic 2020 presidential nomination, and Joaquín is his brother’s campaign chairman. Julián Castro had predicted a more compelling election in Texas and a swell of interest in the primary if he and his brother were both on the ballot.
Joaquín Castro is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the key committees investigating Russian influence in the 2016 election and the Trump 2016 campaign and administration. more
🐔💩.
Hey Castro””, “who’s your daddy?”😏
Don’t come back here, you la raza bastard ( and when I say bastard, I mean it, literally) we have enough people here fucking it up already.
Damn, I was looking forward to this beacon of intellectual light leading us out of the darkness.
From above: “…I’ve been doing what I feel is important and meaningful work here,” Castro told The Express-News.”
I’m used to politicians lying to me but this one is doing it to himself.