2020 Political Buttons Part 7: Cory & Castro

The first votes of 2020 have started. Some lucky folks in Minnesota have already started voting. December and January featured several notable exits from the 2020 race. The Iowa caucus is 13 days away. The field has narrowed considerably There are now just 12 active candidates. When we last wrote about Cory Booker items it was fairly early in the summer of 2019.  Not many new buttons came out later, at least on the website. If you were in Nevada, New Hampshire or Iowa you might have been able to snag a great button from an event.

This pin is 3" and seems to be from NH Booker efforts. It was given out to students going back to school and recruited as Campus Fellows in September as part of a campus outreach effort. I am not sure if these were also given out in Nevada, South Carolina, and Iowa.

There was a nice Cory 2020 pin handed out at the 2019 San Fransico DNC meeting. I don't have a photo of it at the moment but once I track down a pin or photo I will post it. Another button out there is a Nevada for Cory button.

Julian Castro also dropped out of the race this winter. Unlike many of the other candidates, he quickly turned around and endorsed Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Most of the Castro pins you could find from his online store were standard 2.25" pins. There are two versions of several of the pins. There was a theme called Adios Trump that was made into several different kinds of campaign items. Pictured in the buttons below is a version of Cruz Ortiz's design of Adios Trump with the lightning bolt. This pin is slightly larger than the standard 2.25" pins sold on the website. This pin was one of two Castro pins picked up in Iowa during the campaign. It has a distinct union bug from the one of bumperactive in Texas.

The other button picked up in Iowa was one of the Julian for the future pins. It has a read union bug and appears to be a heat-sealed cello version of the pin offered on the Castro website. The other Adios Trump button comes from his website and the JULIAN pin also could be purchased online from the campaign. The simple Castro 2020 was issued early on by the Texas Democratic Party.

The Julian Castro pin with the large union bug on the face is from the Minnesota State Fair collection and the 3" Julian pin was part of the 2019 Celsi set. The final 3" pin was custom made for me. Castro and I met at the Oregon Wayne Morse in 2018.

Two buttons that I have yet to pick up are a 3" button from Castro's Campaign Kickoff and a 3" button from a Native American presidential forum in 2019.

If you have a Julian Castro pin we did not feature here please send us a photo and description.