U.S. Rep Joaquín Castro speaks at local Clinton rally in Edinburg
EDINBURG — When U.S. Rep. Joaquín Castro stepped onto a stage under a blue-and-white-striped tent during a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, a crowd of more than 100 locals went wild.
“Don’t let anybody ever say that the (Rio Grande) Valley does not vote, because you all have been showing up, turning out to vote since it started,” said Castro, who represents Texas’ 20th Congressional District from his hometown of San Antonio.
Every sentence he spoke was punctuated with cheers, shouts and calls of “Never Trump!” or “Hillary!” He mentioned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during his speech, which lasted about six minutes, by recalling when the New York businessman said Mexican immigrants are criminals during the announcement of his candidacy last year.
“I heard that as … a grandson of a woman who came here when she was 6 years old,” he said. “My grandmother came here from Coahuila, Mexico. My grandmother was not a murderer or a rapist; she was an orphan.”
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