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For the Media, This South Texas Democrat’s Scandals Are Just Background Noise

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Bobby Pulido, a Latin Grammy winner and Democratic candidate for Texas 15th Congressional District, sings during a quinceanera celebration in Donna, Texas, August 1, 2026.

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Bobby Pulido, a Tejano singer-songwriter running to oust incumbent Republican Representative Monica De La Cruz, has been lauded by the media and Democratic strategists as a Democratic “unicorn” who may be able to finally flip a historically red south Texas congressional district.

Pulido, who led a recent Texas Southern University poll 51 to 44 percent, has for months benefited from a media willing to gloss over several of his controversies, the most contentious of which includes his relationship with his accordionist Frankie Caballero, a registered sex offender whom Pulido not only toured with for years after he was sentenced to prison for indecent contact with an 8-year-old girl — but whom he also admitted to helping get “out of jail.”

Brittany Bernstein

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Brittany Bernstein

Brittany Bernstein is the deputy news editor of National Review Online.

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