Julián Castro's Anti-Trump Border Battle
The Mother Jones Podcast
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🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Democratic presidential hopeful Julián Castro spoke with Mother Jones for this exclusive interview at one of his favorite restaurants in San Antonio. He told our immigration reporter Fernanda Echavarri that he’s still preaching patience—even though he’s recently been polling at around one percent in a very crowded field. This week, we hear from Castro, who remains upbeat and on message, on his top policy priorities: pushing universal health care with Medicare-for-All, addressing climate change while investing in sustainability, and putting forward “bold immigration legislation” that would give millions of undocumented immigrants a legal path to citizenship.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jimmy |
| 0:03.6 | King in New York. |
| 0:05.0 | On today's show, an |
| 0:08.0 | on today's show, an exclusive interview with Democratic presidential hopeful Julian Castro. |
| 0:20.0 | The Mother Jones Podcast takes you to his hometown for an interview where nothing is out of bounds |
| 0:27.1 | His Latino roots in Texas |
| 0:28.8 | There haven't been that many like me that have run before and so it feels like in some ways that we're blazing a trail. |
| 0:36.0 | His plan to beat Trump. |
| 0:38.0 | What people are looking for in part this year is somebody that can talk to folks that don't agree with them. |
| 0:44.0 | Being a blue mayor in a red state and how he plans to come from behind to be his party's nominee for president. |
| 0:52.0 | I am the underdog, yeah. |
| 0:54.0 | If you look at the polls right now, sure. |
| 0:57.0 | Julian Castro, in an exclusive Mother Jones podcast interview, |
| 1:01.0 | stick around. Julian Castro is the only Latino and the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. |
| 1:23.5 | He served as mayor of his hometown of San Antonio for five years and as Secretary of Housing and Urban |
| 1:29.1 | Development under Obama. |
| 1:31.4 | There was even some buzz about him being Hillary Clinton's running mate on the 2016 |
| 1:35.8 | ticket. And okay, I hear you thinking, uh, he's not polling that great. Could he really make it into that so-called top tier of |
| 1:44.2 | candidates? He's not worried. And you'll hear him talk about that in this |
| 1:48.6 | exclusive interview, along with a ton of other fascinating insights from Castro about his immigration |
| 1:54.3 | plan, how to break up ice, and how to confront Donald Trump. |
| 1:58.8 | Are we good? |
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