Bobby Pulido hoped his leap from the stage to the campaign trail would spotlight a new chapter in his public life.
Instead, an old trail of explicit online posts is dragging the Tejano singer’s congressional bid into controversy before it fully gets off the ground.
According to Fox News, Pulido, a Grammy-winning musician now running for Congress in Texas, has a long digital history referencing pornographic content — with posts stretching from 2013 all the way to 2024.
Despite attempts to scrub portions of his accounts, many of the explicit references remain visible.
Some of the most eyebrow-raising posts date back more than a decade.
In 2013, Pulido encouraged followers to visit the porn site YouPorn if they were “bored,” and shared links to explicit videos that used the music of other artists, jokingly asking if they were earning royalties.
That same year, he promoted a link to XVideos with the caption: “homemade porn while sleep-deprived?”
The pattern continued. In 2014, he declared, “It’s impossible to have Twitter and not watch porn.”
Two years later, he wrote, “To everyone crying over the shutdown of XVideos, I’m telling you there are other free sites. I mean, that’s what they’ve told me. #you’rewelcome.”
Pulido has occasionally claimed his account was hacked — as he did after a 2015 YouPorn link — but the overall volume of posts has become a liability as he challenges Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas.
Republicans aren’t waiting to make it an issue.
“Radical Bobby Pulido is unhinged and unfit to serve in Congress,” NRCC spokesperson Reilley Richardson told Fox News Digital.
Democrats, however, had heavily courted him to run, betting his deep roots in South Texas and cross-cultural appeal could help them reclaim the seat, which was redrawn in a way that still favors Republicans but makes the district more competitive.
Pulido is known for hits like “Desvelado” and “Se Murió de Amor,” earning multiple Latin Grammy nominations and winning Best Tejano Album in 2022 and 2025. In his campaign launch video, he emphasized his upbringing and community ties rather than his celebrity.
“You may know me as Bobby Pulido the singer,” he said. “I am José Roberto Pulido Jr., the son of a migrant farmworker and 100% South Texas Tejano.”
But the attempt to pivot toward a family-focused message is complicated by the fact that explicit images and porn-related jokes still sit on his accounts. Some posts include screenshots from adult sites referencing his music; others involve questionable photos taken at his own concerts.
A picture he shared of a fan in a compromising position as recently as 2024 sparked backlash — but initially remained online.
Pulido has denied participating in any adult material himself, insisting the posts were jokes or commentary. Still, the digital trail lingers.
As his campaign enters a high-stakes race, Pulido faces the challenge of convincing voters that the online persona he curated for years doesn’t define the kind of representative he hopes to be.
