As Democrats gain momentum in Texas, the party's candidate in the state’s 15th House district, award-winning Tejano music superstar Bobby Pulido tells MS NOW’s Ali Velshi that Republicans “took for granted the Latino vote,” and that’s why he thinks he has a shot to flip a GOP seat.
Democratic congressional candidate Bobby Pulido once defended a music video depicting sexual violence and murder as artistic expression, and now that interview is shadowing his bid to unseat a Republican incumbent in one of Texas' most competitive House districts. Pulido, a Latin Grammy Award-winning Tejano singer challenging two-term Rep. Monica De La Cruz in Texas' […] The post Bobby Pulido's defense of graphic murder video becomes liability in Texas congressional race appeared first on American Almanac .
Democratic congressional candidate Bobby Pulido once defended a music video depicting sexual violence and murder as artistic expression, and now that interview is shadowing his bid to unseat a Republican incumbent in one of Texas' most competitive House districts. Pulido, a Latin Grammy Award-winning Tejano singer challenging two-term Rep. Monica De La Cruz in Texas' 15th Congressional District, sat for an interview in 2016 in which he backed singer Gerardo Ortiz after Ortiz's music video "Fuiste Mía", Spanish for "You Were Mine", drew widespread backlash. The video depicts a singer who walks in on his girlfriend with another man, shoots the lover, handcuffs the woman to a pole, blindfolds and gropes her, stuffs her in the trunk of a…Open
Bobby Pulido, the Democratic nominee challenging a Republican incumbent in a conservative South Texas congressional district, asked women on social media to send him explicit pictures and posted repeatedly about pornography, then dismissed the posts as misunderstood humor when reporters came calling. A New York Post review of the 55-year-old Latin Grammy winner's social media […] The post Texas Democratic House candidate Bobby Pulido solicited explicit photos from women in years of Spanish-language social media posts appeared first on American Almanac .
Bobby Pulido, the Democratic nominee challenging a Republican incumbent in a conservative South Texas congressional district, asked women on social media to send him explicit pictures and posted repeatedly about pornography, then dismissed the posts as misunderstood humor when reporters came calling. A New York Post review of the 55-year-old Latin Grammy winner's social media history turned up a trail of posts spanning 2013 to 2018 in which Pulido, posting mostly in Spanish from his personal Twitter account, @bobbypulido425, solicited nude photos, shared links to pornographic websites, and engaged with sexually explicit messages from female fans. Several of the posts were deleted only after the Post contacted his campaign for comment. …Open
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‘Not necessarily rape or murder’
Democrat Texas candidate Bobby Pulido said molesting kids is “not necessarily rape,” after he brought a sex offender to a middle school, according to social media posts uncovered by the Daily Caller. Pulido brought his longtime friend, convicted child sex offender Frankie Caballero, to perform at a benefit concert at a Texas middle school in 2016, according to an Axios report . Nothing like the vibes in South Texas! pic.twitter.com/K7GMMlFZjd — Bobby Pulido for Texas (@PulidoForTexas) June 13, 2026 Unearthed posts on Twitter, now known as X, show Pulido explaining why he believed it was appropriate to bring Caballero to the benefit concert. (RELATED: Democrat Candidate Says He’s Not A Creepy Pervert, Just Mexican) The posts…Open
Democratic congressional candidate and musician Bobby Pulido performed onstage alongside a registered sex offender at a Texas middle school benefit concert in 2018, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Pulido, the Grammy award-winning Tejano singer running to oust Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz in Texas' 15th district, is facing media scrutiny over his ties to accordionist Frankie Caballero. - Pulido has denied he had any knowledge of Caballero's status as a registered sex offender at the time of the 2018 school benefit, which occurred roughly a year after Caballero finished serving a four-year prison sentence for indecent sexual contact with an 8-year-old girl. - A spokesperson for Pulido's campaign told the New York Post in April…
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Pulido has been a mainstay of Tejano music —a genre blending traditional regional Mexican elements with country, pop and conjunto influences — for more than three decades.
'Sometimes that humor doesn't translate'