A Latin Grammy winner challenging GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz in Texas once starred in a bizarre music video as a pervert who masturbates in public — and has a strange history of making homophobic remarks on social media, The Post has learned.
Tejano singer Bobby Pulido won the Democratic primary earlier this month in the state’s 15th Congressional District as the moderate in the race who has taken nearly $1 million in contributions from the Blue Dog Coalition and focused on voters’ economic concerns, border security and local issues.
But a review of his social media presence stretching back more than a decade suggests he may be more interested in pleasing himself.
In a music video for his song “Dias de Ayer,” Pulido pantomimed as multiple characters including an exhibitionist, who wraps himself in a red blanket while repeatedly masturbating and even exposing himself to a woman while apparently on a private jet flight.
The two-time Latin Grammy winner seemingly caused such a stir with the 2010 video — which also displayed him as a homosexual admirer of the serial exhibitionist figure — that he faced questions from the Mexican press about his sexuality the same month it was released on an eponymous album.
“People are opening up more. I can even tell you that when I started my career, I saw the whole situation (of gays) very differently. At first, they said I was gay; there were rumors that I was like that,” Pulido told the outlet El Norte in a translated Spanish language March 2010 interview.
The singer noted that his father was surprised to see him act as a gay character and that media outlets “started circulating that kind of rumor, which isn’t true, I can swear on the Bible that I’m not” — something he appears to have actually done to try to put the rumor to bed.
That wasn’t enough to fend off one male journalistic admirer who made inappropriate sexual advances on him in 2017, Pulido claimed in an interview with the Spanish-language program “Primer Impacto” (“First Impact”).
Pulido also posted on his X account in the following years several derogatory comments about homosexual males, even rebuffing some netizen admirers.
“Igualmente amigo, no homo,” he said in a September 2019 post.
“1. I don’t like those guys. 2. You can’t have children. 3. Stop being a jerk already,” the future Democratic candidate brushed off another two years prior in a Spanish post.
Pulido also taunted the pharmaceutical tycoon Martin Shkreli in a December 2015 post: “Don’t drop the soap a–hole.” Shkreli later served seven years in prison for securities fraud for defrauding investors in his biotech firm.
The media image the south Texas artist cultivated could be tough to swallow in the largely conservative district in the Rio Grande Valley that runs from San Antonio south to the US-Mexico border.
President Trump won the 15th District handily in 2024, and De La Cruz, who is seeking a second term in this year’s election, triumphed by more than 14 percentage points over Democratic opponent Michelle Vallejo.
A Democrat-funded poll conducted in September found Pulido trailing behind the Republican incumbent by three percentage points.
The Latino music star is also taking heat for spending more time in Mexico than Texas before launching his campaign, telling a YouTube show in a 2023 interview that he’s a “summer Mexican” but “winter Texan.”
Reps for Pulido’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
