“Texans Are Being Held Hostage”: Julián Castro on “WTF Is Happening” in the Lone Star State

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, Julián Castro, onetime Democratic presidential candidate and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Barack Obama, joins Inside the Hive to discuss the hard-right push on guns, abortion, and voting in Texas, which has become a blueprint for recalcitrant Trumpist states, and what Democrats are going to do about it. Castro is worried about what he calls Biden’s relatively weak leadership—especially his handling of the border crisis. “My hope is that the Biden administration is going to reverse course on this very soon,” he says. He also sketches out a scenario in which his former competitor, Beto O’Rourke, runs for governor of Texas in 2022 and helps Democrats retake power after years of dashed hopes: “I believe that he has a shot to beat Greg Abbott.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.3	Welcome back to Inside the High.
0:40.0	This is your co-host, Joe Hagen, Emily Jane Fox, without this week.
0:45.6	But you should go back and listen to her interview of last week if you didn't hear it.
0:50.3	It was an amazing portrait of a photographer who took pictures of her family who were all
0:56.2	very deeply involved in the Trump world, and she documented what it was like to live in
1:03.0	a family of Trumpers, books called Family Matters.
1:06.7	It was in the last episode, she'd check it out, it's a really great interview.
1:12.0	And it reminded me that I'm going to just start off saying that I'm from Texas.
1:17.3	I mentioned that semi-periodically on this podcast, and everybody's been turning to me at
1:22.5	the staff of Vanity Fair, and all the people I know in the New York area where I live now,
1:27.4	what's going on with Texas?
1:28.6	What is wrong with Texas?
1:30.2	Texas?
1:31.2	And I try to defend it.
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