NBC News: The Twin Castro Brothers Teamed Up for One of the Most Unusual Presidential Announcements Ever

NBC News: The Twin Castro Brothers Teamed Up for One of the Most Unusual Presidential Announcements Ever

For campaign finance watchdogs, its just the latest example of the "charade" of the "purported non-candidacy," as Paul S. Ryan of Common Cause has put it, where people whom we all know are running for president avoid admitting to set their own timeline for an announcement, regardless of the what the rules say.

It looked like Julián Castro and sounded a lot like him, but confirmation that he plans to run for president in 2020 came from his identical twin, Joaquín Castro.

In a moment that made comically visible the doublespeak exercised by virtually every modern presidential candidate in the run-up to their official announcement, one twin brother said Thursday the words that the other squirmed to avoid saying for legal and political reasons.

Joaquín Castro, a Democratic congressman from Texas, seeing his one minute-older brother being pressed by Stephen Colbert in a joint appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” jumped in to make it as official as any brother can. …

“I’ll speak on his behalf, here,” Joaquín interjected, getting a smile and nod from Julián. “He’s going to run for president…For the FEC lawyers: He didn’t say it! I said it.” …

For campaign finance watchdogs, its just the latest example of the “charade” of the “purported non-candidacy,” as Paul S. Ryan of Common Cause has put it, where people whom we all know are running for president avoid admitting to set their own timeline for an announcement, regardless of the what the rules say.