The Latin Grammy award profitable Tejano music star Bobby Pulido received the Democratic main in opposition to Ada Cuellar, an emergency doctor, CBS Information initiatives.
Pulido now faces an uphill battle in unseating the Republican Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz. The congressional district’s boundaries had been redrawn in 2025 as a part of the mid-decade redistricting efforts to additional favor Republicans requested by President Trump.
De La Cruz flipped the Hispanic-majority district in 2022 that was as soon as a historically blue seat, and Mr. Trump then received by 18 factors in 2024. However in elections which have taken place throughout the nation since then, Latino voters have proven to swing to the left, together with in ruby-red precincts in Texas the place Democrats had not received in over 40 years.
The race for congressional District 15 is one each Republicans and Democrats are carefully watching with strategists telling CBS Information that it’ll take a Democrat with a robust title ID, like Pulido, and a candidate who can attraction to conservative Latinos.
Pulido’s bid was boosted by near $1 million in outdoors spending from Blue Canine Motion’s political arm, a average political operation.
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