Bobby Pulido wins Democratic primary in Texas' 15th District, CBS News projects

The Latin Grammy grant winning Tejano euphony prima Bobby Pulido won the Democratic superior against Ada Cuellar, an exigency physician, CBS News projects. 

Pulido present faces an uphill conflict successful unseating the Republican Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz. The legislature district's boundaries were redrawn successful 2025 arsenic portion of the mid-decade redistricting efforts to further favour Republicans requested by President Trump. 

De La Cruz flipped the Hispanic-majority territory successful 2022 that was erstwhile a traditionally bluish seat, and Mr. Trump past won by 18 points successful 2024. But in  elections that person taken spot crossed the state since then, Latino voters person shown to plaything to the left, including successful ruby-red precincts successful Texas wherever Democrats had not won successful implicit 40 years. 

The contention for legislature District 15 is 1 some Republicans and Democrats are intimately watching with strategists telling CBS News that it volition instrumentality a Democrat with a beardown sanction ID, similar Pulido, and a campaigner who tin entreaty to blimpish Latinos.

Pulido's bid was boosted by adjacent to $1 cardinal successful extracurricular spending from Blue Dog Action's governmental arm, a mean governmental operation.