This South Texas Singer Could Be A Big Winner For Democrats

Summary

Bobby Pulido, who’s running for Congress in Texas, is more than just a quinceañera singer. But it helps. Pulido played one of the final shows of his career in early October at a street festival in the South Texas town of Alice, where LBJ’s allies stole the 1948 Senate election and generations of Tejano music stars got their start. The 53-year-old Pulido is both a Tejano music legend and the son of one, as well as the Democratic nominee in a freshly gerrymandered swath of Texas that starts on the border in Hidalgo and stretches north for about 300 miles. When he entered the race last year to…

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