Julián Castro not holding back
It didn't take long for Julián Castro to say on social media what many Texas Democrats were surely thinking after President Joe Biden's faltering debate performance.
"Biden had a very low bar going into the debate and failed to clear even that bar," said Castro, the former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. "He seemed unprepared, lost, and not strong enough to parry effectively with Trump, who lies constantly."
That shot from Castro isn't entirely surprising if you remember the 2019 Democratic presidential debate in Houston where Castro seemed to suggest Biden had a memory problem — a jab many complained was a low blow by the former San Antonio mayor.
He's far from alone. State Rep. Ron Reynolds, D-Missouri City, on Instagram said "I FIRMLY believe WE need to REPLACE Biden at the Convention or Earlier and nominate Vice President Kamala Harris!"
Reynolds is notable because he's a Biden delegate for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
But not everyone in Texas Democratic politics is ready to join Castro and Reynolds. U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, delivered a full-throttled defense of Biden telling reporters after the debate to focus on the substance of the fight, particularly when it came to Biden calling out Trump for celebrating the end of Roe v. Wade.
"We have somebody that is bragging about the fact that he took Roe v Wade away from us," Crockett said.
Check out more of the reactions from last night here.
 | Jeremy Wallace, Texas politics reporter |
Who's up, who's down
About 300,000 Haitians already in the United States will now be eligible for temporary legal status, allowing them to remain in the U.S. and work because conditions in the strife-torn Caribbean nation are considered unsafe for them to return, the Homeland Security Department said. In 2021 and 2022, Texas particularly saw a surge in Haitian migration at the Texas border. Federal officials reported more than 60,000 encounters with Haitian migrants in the Texas border sectors during those two years.
Down: Joe Biden.
Friday was all about damage control by the White House and the President's allies as they tried to explain away his debate performance. "I don't walk as easy as I used to," Biden said during a rally in North Carolina on Friday. "I don't speak as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth."
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We are back with a new edition of the Texas Take podcast. Scott Braddock and I get into the presidential debate, the politics engulfing the death of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray and pay tribute to Kinky Friedman, who died at his ranch near Medina this week.
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A federal bankruptcy judge has stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to begin collecting on some of the $50 million they won in a lawsuit against Texas-based conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims that the massacre was a hoax. The AP has the latest on it all here.
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