A week after putting out a mid-September plea for donations in order to stay in the presidential race, Sen. Cory Booker’s campaign announced it had reached the DNC’s donor threshold for the 5th presidential debate, which is next month.

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A new book written by two New York Times reporters, excerpted in an article at the NYTimes, about the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh purports to raise new evidence about Kavanaugh’s supposed sexual misconduct while at Yale.

The new accusations do not hold up to scrutiny and...

After taking a pot shot at former Vice President and current 2020 Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden, Julian Castro doubled-down.  He told CNN that he wouldn’t do anything differently.

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Joe Biden is running for the Democratic nomination and that means he is fair game for his opponents. That does not mean, however, that no one is allowed to notice the nasty way Julian Castro went after him in the last debate on Thursday night.

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Julian Castro is running for president in the Democrat primary, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the current news cycle.

After a strong debate performance (by Democrat metrics), Castro raised $2.8 million in the second quarter, most of it filtering in after the debate.
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The 2020 election campaign season is kicking into high gear, and a number of Democratic party hopefuls are jumping onto the reparations train. But it’s one they may find could derail their aspirations for higher office.

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As more Democrats declare their intention to run for president in 2020, they will be under increased pressure to distinguish themselves from the rest of the crowd.

One of the ways this is already unfolding is a competition to be the person who wants to raise taxes the...

According to a report in The Daily Mail, Julian Castro will announce his presidential candidacy on January 12.

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Oh, boy. How far left will the left go? I ask this because former President Barack Obama’s HUD Secretary Julian Castro will visit New Hampshire to speak to the state’s Young Democrats Granite Slate Awards dinner this month.

Failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton even considered him as her running mate.

But is...

Remember Julián Castro?

I can forgive you if you don’t and didn’t.

Castro was the former Mayor of San Antonio who was groomed to be the next rising star in the Democratic orbit. His stint as mayor, however, was not much of a base upon which to launch a national trajectory. As I...

Julian Castro is unqualified for national office, despite extensive grooming by Democrats.

He is the former Mayor of San Antonio, but as I noted in May 2014, Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio had less responsibility than Mayor Sarah Palin of Wasilla:

Sarah Palin, who also was Governor of Alaska at the time of...

Once again, there is buzz about former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro as a possible VP pick for Hillary. Castro was given the position of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services as part of grooming him for the national stage:

2016 identity politics: We’ll meet...

Hillary. Bernie. O’Malley? Biden!

Right now, the Democratic field feels both random and predictable: we have Hillary Clinton, who should be the anointed one; Bernie Sanders, whose numbers defy reason; and Joe Biden, who everyone laughs at but no one counts out. Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb, and a few others round...

Sarah Palin, who also was Governor of Alaska at the time of her nomination for Veep, was excoriated by the mainstream media for her stint as Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, with the argument being that her job only involved overseeing a few departments.  It was less than worthless experience, the...

I’ve seen this coming for a couple of years.

Julian Castro, the Mayor of San Antonio, reportedly is being nominated for a Cabinet post to give him the credentials to be Hillary’s Veep pick.

San Antonio...