Simply days after ending his personal White Home bid, former Housing and City Improvement Secretary Julián Castro is endorsing Sen. Elizabeth Wa
Simply days after ending his personal White Home bid, former Housing and City Improvement Secretary Julián Castro is endorsing Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president.
Castro, who suspended his marketing campaign on January 2, introduced his determination to again the Massachusetts Democrat in a video launched Monday morning. “There’s one candidate I see who’s unafraid to struggle like hell to verify America’s promise will probably be there for everybody,” Castro says. “Who will ensure that irrespective of the place you reside in America or the place your loved ones got here from on this planet, you have got a path to alternative too. That’s why I’m proud to endorse Elizabeth Warren for President.”
The video options the pair talking with each other in Warren’s kitchen at her Massachusetts residence as her canine, Bailey, appears on.
“, I began my marketing campaign off, and we lived true to the concept that we would like an America the place everybody counts,” Castro says. “It’s the identical imaginative and prescient that I see in you, in your marketing campaign, within the America that you’d assist result in.”
As we speak I am proud to endorse @ewarren for president.
Elizabeth and I share a imaginative and prescient of America the place everybody counts. An America the place folks—not the rich or well-connected—are put first. I am proud to affix her within the struggle for large, structural change. pic.twitter.com/xDvMEKqpF3
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) January 6, 2020
Castro’s endorsement is a vital — if just a little unsurprising — get for Warren. Of the 2020 Democrats who’ve dropped out of the race to this point, he’s one of only three to have endorsed one other candidate, and he’s the best profile: former Sen. Mike Gravel endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Tim Ryan endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. As Astead Herndon at the New York Times notes, Castro’s endorsement of Warren isn’t essentially a shock — the pair clearly share an affinity for each other. There has additionally been some hypothesis that Castro could also be a possible vice presidential choose for Warren ought to she win the nomination.
Thanks @JulianCastro for being a strong voice, for proposing daring and progressive plans, and for utilizing your marketing campaign to assist individuals who want it now. You made this race stronger—and you’ll proceed to be a frontrunner in our get together and our nation for a few years to return. pic.twitter.com/SWlsDC9HcS
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) January 2, 2020
Different notable Warren endorsers embody the Working Families Party, Sen. Ed Markey, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, soccer star Megan Rapinoe, and author Roxane Homosexual.
Warren would possibly hope that Castro’s endorsement will inject some contemporary vitality into her marketing campaign. After steadily rising in the polls over the summer, her numbers have stalled considerably in latest months. Her fourth-quarter fundraising numbers, whereas sturdy, lagged behind Sanders, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Biden. New polling over the weekend exhibits Warren in fourth place in Iowa, behind Sanders, Biden, and Buttigieg, and third in New Hampshire, behind Sanders and Biden. In accordance with a RealClearPolitics average of polls, Warren is polling at 14.four p.c nationally, behind Biden at 29.three p.c and Sanders at 19.9 p.c.
Castro will journey to New York to marketing campaign with Warren at a rally on the Kings Theater in Brooklyn on Tuesday.