Texas Democrat challenging Monica De La Cruz starred in music video portraying an exhibitionist

Bobby Pulido, the Tejano singer and Latin Grammy winner who won the Democratic primary earlier this month in Texas's 15th Congressional District, once starred in a 2010 music video in which he pantomimed as multiple characters, including an exhibitionist who wraps himself in a red blanket while repeatedly simulating masturbation and exposing himself to a woman on what appears to be a private jet.

That's the man Democrats are betting nearly $1 million on to flip a deep-red South Texas seat.

Pulido, who has taken close to $1 million in contributions from the Blue Dog Coalition, has reportedly pitched himself to voters as a moderate focused on economic concerns, border security, and local issues. The music video for "Dias de Ayer," released on an album of the same name in 2010, tells a somewhat different story about the candidate's judgment.

The Posts Democrats Don't Want You to Read

The video isn't the only thing in Pulido's past that clashes with his carefully constructed campaign image. His social media history features a string of posts that, by the left's own standards, should be disqualifying, the New York Post reported.

In September 2019, Pulido posted on X: "Igualmente amigo, no homo." In December 2015, he taunted pharmaceutical tycoon Martin Shkreli, who later served seven years in prison for securities fraud, with the line: "Don't drop the soap a–hole."

And in a translated March 2010 interview with the Mexican outlet El Norte, published the same month as the music video's release, Pulido addressed persistent rumors about his sexuality by telling the press:

"People are opening up more. I can even tell you that when I started my career, I saw the whole situation (of gays) very differently. At first, they said I was gay; there were rumors that I was like that."

He went further, insisting the rumors weren't true and saying he could "swear on the Bible" that he wasn't gay. He also listed his objections in blunt terms: "1. I don't like those guys. 2. You can't have children. 3. Stop being a jerk already."

In 2017, Pulido claimed in an interview with "Primer Impacto" that a male journalist had made inappropriate sexual advances toward him.

Now imagine, for one moment, that a Republican candidate had this portfolio. The social media posts alone would fuel a week of cable news panels about "hate" and "toxic masculinity." The music video would be on a loop. Every Democrat in Washington would be asked to condemn it, and most would oblige with practiced outrage.

But Pulido has a D next to his name. So the rules, apparently, are different.

A "Moderate" Who Lives in Mexico

The contradictions don't stop at old social media posts. Pulido told a YouTube show in a 2023 interview that he's a "summer Mexican" but "winter Texan," a remark that raises a basic question: how much time has this congressional candidate actually spent in the district he wants to represent?

According to reporting, Pulido spent more time in Mexico than Texas before launching his campaign. That's an interesting foundation for a man who says he wants to champion border security and local issues in the Rio Grande Valley. The district runs from San Antonio south to the U.S.-Mexico border, and its residents have made their priorities clear in recent elections.

President Trump won the 15th District handily in 2024. GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz, who is seeking a second term, triumphed by more than 14 percentage points over Democratic opponent Michelle Vallejo in the last cycle. A Democrat-funded poll conducted in September found Pulido trailing the Republican incumbent by just three percentage points, which is presumably why national Democrats are pouring money into the race.

But a party-funded poll and a pile of Blue Dog cash don't change the fundamentals of this district. South Texas has been moving rightward for years, and for good reason. Voters there live with the consequences of a broken border every single day. They don't need a part-time Texan to lecture them about "local issues."

The Double Standard Is the Story

Democrats have spent the better part of a decade building an entire political infrastructure around policing language, scrutinizing old social media posts, and demanding accountability for anything that offends progressive sensibilities. They ended careers over yearbook photos. They memory-holed comedians over decade-old jokes. They built a culture in which a single ill-chosen word can trigger a national reckoning.

Bobby Pulido posted "no homo" on social media. He listed reasons he objects to gay people. He starred in a music video simulating exhibitionism. And he got rewarded with a Democratic primary victory and nearly $1 million in party support.

This isn't hypocrisy as an occasional slip. It's hypocrisy as an operational strategy. The rules exist to destroy opponents, not to govern allies.

Monica De La Cruz won her district by 14 points last cycle. She has the advantage of actually living in Texas full-time. Democrats can spend all the Blue Dog money they want in TX-15. The voters there already know what they're looking for, and it isn't a part-time resident with a very strange audition tape.