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    Julian Castro's run for president banks on Latinos, but it's a steep climb to White House

    by Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times Mar 06, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - With more than a dozen Democrats now vying for president, Julian Castro is charting a path unlike any of the others, as his visit to California on Monday made clear.

    The former San Antonio mayor and Housing secretary under President Barack Obama took questions from a Chicano studies class at UCLA. He did a television interview with Univision anchor Leon Krauze. In South L.A., he led a roundtable of black and Latino neighborhood activists.

    Castro holds the distinction of being the only Latino in the race at a time when many Democrats are appalled by President Donald Trump's fight to block immigrants from entering the U.S. from Mexico.

    So Castro, whose grandmother

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