Hillary Clinton’s campaign released a statement Thursday from Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro saying that Donald Trump views Latinos as “not American.”
This is sure to add to the speculation that the presumptive Democratic nominee will choose the young Texan as her running mate.
The Castro email went out to the official Hillary for America press list in response to Trump’s visit to Texas Thursday and Friday.
“Donald Trump’s message to the Latino community is clear: You are not American. In Trump’s America, Latinos wouldn’t be welcome, our LGBT brothers and sisters wouldn’t be able to marry who they love, and Americans would be discriminated against because of their religion,” Castro said in the statement.
Castro went on to argue that Trump is “not qualified and he’s temperamentally unfit to be president,” a phrase Clinton often uses to describe the GOP nominee while on the campaign trail.
It has been reported that Castro is among those being vetted by the Clinton campaign to serve as her running mate. Other Democrats who may be in consideration include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, Virginia Sen. Tim Kanie and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner.
“As Trump visits Texas over the next few days, let it be clear that his hateful rhetoric is not welcome in our community. Let it be clear that we will raise our voices against him in November,” Castro concluded.
