South Texas Voters Love His Music. But What About His Politics?

Bobby Pulido isn’t great at politics. At least, not yet. He understands issues well enough—he can speak passionately, knowledgeably, and extemporaneously about immigration, healthcare, and guns—but his speech lacks the smooth patter of an experienced campaigner. When he answers questions from a potential voter, he has a Biden-esque tendency to gear up like he’s about to blow the mind of the town hall attendee who asked it, sometimes starting a response with a condescending “Guess what?” He comes off like someone used to being the political buff in rooms full of musicians; that’s less likely to be the case when he’s taking a question from someone who has turned up at a town hall fourteen months before an election.

What Pulido does have right now is a famous name, especially in Texas’s Fift