EXCLUSIVE: Top Dem House recruit has "utterly disqualifying" extremist rhetoric

Bobby Pulido was supposed to be the Democrats' savior in Texas; now he may be a liability.

President Donald Trump reversed centuries of Democratic Party dominance, and Democrats were briefly elated when Tejano singer Bobby Pulido announced that he would challenge Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R., Texas) in 2026.

Democrats need lightning to strike to have a chance of winning Texas’s 15th District, which Trump carried by 18 percent, and which De La Cruz won by double digits, and Pulido could have been just what they needed.

But a review of Pulido’s rhetoric over years shows a pattern of what one political observer called “violent, extreme political rhetoric.”

For years, Pulido has used his Twitter account to call Trump voters “racist,” claimed that Trump’s candidacy appealed to the “alt right,” attacked cops as being “pinches culeros,” and shared a Texas Black Lives Matter rally.

On Facebook, Pulido defended failed Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and on Instagram he posted in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Republicans are, un surprisingly, eager to spotlight Pulido’s extremist rhetoric. “Bobby Pulido’s history of engaging in extreme political rhetoric is utterly disqualifying. Unlike Pulido, South Texans love President Trump and Monica De La Cruz, which is why they’ll reelect her next year,” Reilly Richardson, a spokesman at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) told the Reporter.