{"id":38838,"date":"2019-09-13T03:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T03:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38838"},"modified":"2019-09-13T03:58:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T03:58:58","slug":"castro-launches-cheap-shot-at-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38838","title":{"rendered":"Castro launches cheap shot at Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23TexasTribune%20%23JulianCastro%20%23ACA%20%23JoeBiden%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/biden-and-castro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38839\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/biden-and-castro-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/biden-and-castro-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/biden-and-castro-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/biden-and-castro.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may count me as one of those Americans who gasped just a tad tonight when Julian Castro seemed to launch an ageist attack against Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The two men were part of a 10-candidate Democratic presidential candidate joint appearance tonight in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The former vice president, Biden, sought to make a point about &#8220;Medicare for all.&#8221; He opposes a plan pitched by opponents Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. He said he supported a provision in the Affordable Care Act, which gave Americans a chance to &#8220;buy in&#8221; to insurance plans provided by the ACA.<\/p>\n<p>Castro then launched a verbal barrage, accusing the former VP of &#8220;forgetting&#8221; what he just said. He said several times in just a few seconds that Biden &#8220;forgot&#8221; something he said only moments earlier. The audience at the Texas Southern University hall gasped audibly.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say I thought the moment revealed an ugly side of the former Housing secretary and former San Antonio mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he misrepresented what Biden actually said \u2026 which makes his attack even worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2019\/09\/12\/julian-castro-hits-joe-biden-his-memory-commitment-barack-obama\/\">Ageism has no place<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who won this encounter. They all seemed to score sufficient points arguing with each other at times. However, Julian Castro&#8217;s baseless barrage appears to have been the lowest point that any of the candidates suffered.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23TexasTribune%20%23JulianCastro%20%23ACA%20%23JoeBiden%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may count me as one of those Americans who gasped just a tad tonight when Julian Castro seemed to launch an ageist attack against Joe Biden. The two men were part of a 10-candidate Democratic presidential candidate joint appearance tonight in Houston. The former vice president, Biden, sought to make a point about &#8220;Medicare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Castro launches cheap shot at Biden<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7225,1342,2505,2606,4728],"class_list":["post-38838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-democratic-primary","tag-joe-biden","tag-julian-castro","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38840,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38838\/revisions\/38840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}