20 Questions for 2020: Julián Castro

By NowThis

Published on 6/24/2019 at 1:20 PM

Presidential candidate Julián Castro shares what it was like growing up with an activist in the Chicano movement, how he risked his mayoral tenure to expand pre-k in his community, and why climate change is the most important issue of our time.

Watch the former mayor and HUD secretary answer our “20 Questions for 2020.”

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