Julian Castro was your first choice for President? Why Bernie Sanders should be your new candidate.
Authors and Editors: Maryland for Bernie Sanders Board Member, Bobby Moore, and Maryland for Bernie Sanders State Coordinator, Keanuu Smith-Brown.
Julian Castro, as the only Hispanic candidate in the 2020 Democratic Primary, added a lot of value to this presidential race. If you were a Julian Castro supporter and believed in his policy agenda, you may want to look at Bernie Sanders, as the two have significant similar policy positions across a variety of issues.
Free and Fair Elections
Both Sanders and Castro have similar policy agendas regarding the promotion of free and fair elections. Their full policy agendas can be viewed by clicking the links above. At a high level, Sanders and Castro support the following:
- Making Election Day a National Holiday.
- Overturning Citizens United.
- Restoring and strengthening the Voting Rights Act.
Criminal Justice Reform
Both Sanders and Castro have similar policy agendas regarding criminal justice in America. Their full policy agendas can be viewed by clicking the links above. At a high level, Sanders and Castro support the following:
- Fully legalizing marijuana and expunging all marijuana-related convictions.
- Ending cash bail.
- Abolishing the death penalty.
- Closing all for-profit private prisons.
Environmental Justice and the Green New Deal
Both Sanders and Castro have similar policy agendas regarding environmental justice in America. Their full policy agendas can be viewed by clicking the links above. At a high level, Sanders and Castro support the following:
- Eliminating all fossil fuel subsidies.
- Ensuring a just transition for workers in the energy industry into green jobs.
- Massively raising taxes on corporate polluters’ and investors’ fossil fuel income and wealth.
Immigration
Both Sanders and Castro have similar policy agendas regarding immigration policy. Their full policy agendas can be viewed by clicking the links above. At a high level, Sanders and Castro support the following:
- Reinstating and expanding DACA and developing a humane policy for those seeking asylum.
- Implementing comprehensive immigration reform.
- Ending wasteful, inhumane spending on a border wall.
- Rescinding Trump’s racist Muslim ban.
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