'Not the campaigner he was': Ex- HUD Secretary Julián Castro urges Biden to step aside
Raw StoryFormer San Antonio mayor and Obama administration Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro added himself Tuesday to a small but insistent list of Democrats calling on President Joe Biden to step aside from the race. In a series of posts to X, Castro acknowledged his gratitude for Biden's policy accomplishments — but expressed his fear, in the wake of campaign missteps in the previous week, that he isn't up for waging the fight he did in 2020 that swept former President Donald Trump out of office. Castro said Biden is "not the campaigner he was in 2020" — and instead, "looks very likely to lose to Trump, one of the weakest candidates in presidential history." Read also: Democratic governors hold emergency meeting over Biden debate concerns: report Other Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, have a better shot at winning, he said.