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Before running for Congress, Bobby Pulido was a Tejano music icon

NPR Topics: News·@IsabellaGomezSarmiento·2 months ago
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Isabella Gomez Sarmiento Bobby Pulido at a campaign event in February. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Bloomberg hide caption When Texas native Bobby Pulido announced he'd be running for office in the state's 15th congressional district, which stretches from the San Antonio border down to the border with Mexico, many people already knew his name — not as a politician, but as a star in the state's signature Tejano music genre. In September, on the same day he received his fifth Latin Grammy nomination, Pulido officially threw his cowboy hat in the ring as a Democratic candidate against incumbent Rep. Monica De La Cruz. Three years earlier, she'd become the first Republican to ever flip the historically blue district.…

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