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

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