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by Frances Fromm / Wednesday, 04 December 2019 / Published in Politics

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro didn’t mince words when asked about his feelings on the abrupt ending of California Sen. Kamala Harris’ bid for president.

“To me, they held her to a different standard, a double standard, to other campaigns. And I don’t know if it impacted her decision to withdraw from the race or not, but I’m sure it didn’t help,” Castro told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday.

Despite a strong showing of support early in her campaign—which included more than 20,000 people attending her announcement to run for president—and significant debate moments, including her terse exchange with Joe Biden on his position on race and segregation, strict Democratic debate qualifications and reports that the Harris’ campaign was hemorrhaging cash, the once promising campaign was forced to shut its doors.

“My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue,” Harris said in a statement, The Hill reports.

Photo: Elijah Nouvelage (Getty Images)

“It’s a damn shame, frankly, that Kamala Harris’ voice is no longer in this race,” New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker told BuzzFeed News’s AM to DM.

“I’ve seen the bile, the anger, from my family members, to people in the Congressional Black Caucus, to leaders of color across this country who just don’t understand how we’ve gotten to a point now where there’s more billionaires in the 2020 race than there are black people,” Booker added.

What may even be more ironic is that Harris had qualified for the next primary debate and Castro and Booker still have not. If the field stays the way it is, then the December debate will be full of white candidates despite starting as one of the most diverse presidential pools in history.

“I hope that the DNC will reevaluate its threshold,” Castro said of the upcoming debates. “What it’s resulting in is a lack of diversity on the debate stage. It’s also clear that some have been able to potentially buy their way on stage. I don’t think that was the original intention with putting thresholds like this in place, but we need to make sure that voters have the opportunity to hear from a range of candidates.”

Frances Fromm
  • Corresponden & leading expert at Washington, D.C. news
  • Former reporter at Miami Herald
  • Studied at Stanford University
  • Went to Finlay DR Carlos J Elementary School
  • Lives in Washington, District of Columbia
  • From Miami, Florida

Is a national and foreign correspondent based in D.C. She files investigative reports and covers breaking news on a range of topics, including corruption, police shootings, etc. Before joining the TimWorld in 2018, she worked at the Miami Herald. She was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University.

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