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RandySF

(80,289 posts) Sat Nov 29, 2025, 06:55 PM Saturday

TX-15: Republicans Flipped South Texas. Can a Moderate Tejano Singer Take It Back?

Wearing jeans and cowboy boots, Bobby Pulido insisted he was feeling a little rusty at a skeet shooting competition this month in the border city of Weslaco, Texas. But when the clay pigeon thrower hurled the targets into the air, he steeled his nerves, pointed his shotgun and blasted six out of six.

“It’s precision and calculation,” Mr. Pulido, a Tejano singer and Latin Grammy Award winner, said, explaining how he anticipates where the target is headed before pulling the trigger.

A household name in the Rio Grande Valley and beyond with a career in show business spanning three decades, Mr. Pulido, 52, knows that he will need that level of precision to translate his celebrity into a political career. He is trying to take back Texas’ 15th congressional district from a Republican who flipped it in 2022 after 118 years of Democratic control.

The wider Rio Grande Valley moved sharply toward President Trump in 2024, sending shock waves to the nation as the Democrats lost their grip on the Hispanic vote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/politics/bobby-pulido.html

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TX-15: Republicans Flipped South Texas. Can a Moderate Tejano Singer Take It Back? (Original Post) RandySF Saturday OP

It depends a great deal on how TX's redistricting ends up. FBaggins Saturday #1

Because we need more "moderates" who'll bipartisan with their friends. DJ Synikus Makisimus Saturday #2

Good luck getting a Berniecrat elected there. RandySF Saturday #3

Texas, apart from a handful of districts, is going to elect Republicans whether they call themselves that or not. DJ Synikus Makisimus Saturday #6

So is Jasmine Crockett Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 30th district sheshe2 Saturday #8

You forget the first vote in every Congress is the most important vote karynnj Saturday #9

Wow. That's dumb. Scrivener7 Saturday #10

You DO know the seat is currently held by a Republican right? Rstrstx Saturday #4

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At minimum a Democratic speaker. RandySF Saturday #7

Right? We really need to bring back Civics classes in hight school. Scrivener7 Saturday #11

Most DSA folks Boo1 Saturday #13

Over actual republicans? Hell yes FBaggins Saturday #12

FBaggins

(28,603 posts)

1. It depends a great deal on how TX's redistricting ends up.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 07:09 PM

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I'm sure their new lines attempted to shore up vulnerable districts

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,163 posts)

2. Because we need more "moderates" who'll bipartisan with their friends.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 07:17 PM

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Hard pass.

RandySF

(80,289 posts)

3. Good luck getting a Berniecrat elected there.

Reply to DJ Synikus Makisimus (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 07:18 PM

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DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,163 posts)

6. Texas, apart from a handful of districts, is going to elect Republicans whether they call themselves that or not.

Reply to RandySF (Reply #3)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 08:18 PM

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You know, like Greg Casar of TX-35, who is DSA.

If the Democratic Party is merely a faction of the Republicans, well, enjoy your "win."

Moderates are wannabe, has been and never was Republicans. Their function is to sabotage any legislation that would benefit ordinary people, as part of the plan to increase the wealth, privilege and power of the wealthy, privileged and powerful.

If that's what everyone wants, why bother having two parties? Perhaps they should merge so they can bipartisan ever more closely.

sheshe2

(95,143 posts)

8. So is Jasmine Crockett Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 30th district

Reply to DJ Synikus Makisimus (Reply #6)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 08:38 PM

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a Moderate?

Moderates are wannabe, has been and never was Republicans. Their function is to sabotage any legislation that would benefit ordinary people, as part of the plan to increase the wealth, privilege and power of the wealthy, privileged and powerful.

karynnj

(60,719 posts)

9. You forget the first vote in every Congress is the most important vote

Reply to DJ Synikus Makisimus (Reply #6)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 08:42 PM

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The first vote is for Speaker. In the House the speaker has enormous power in what comes to a vote. Yes, there is the elaborate discharge petition, but that is the exception. Also having the Speaker, gives you the chair of all the standing committees and with that subpoena power.

It is incredibly important that we win one of the Houses of Congress to have any real check on Trump .. and the House is more likely. So, yes, we should welcome moderates to our caucus.

Scrivener7

(57,979 posts)

10. Wow. That's dumb.

Reply to DJ Synikus Makisimus (Reply #6)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 09:06 PM

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Rstrstx

(1,621 posts)

4. You DO know the seat is currently held by a Republican right?

Reply to DJ Synikus Makisimus (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 07:39 PM

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He has an excellent chance of flipping the seat. Or would you rather we keep the Republican? We’re not going to win the House by running 218+ Democratic Socialists.