Article 78TGB The Tejano singer trying to win back Latinos who voted for Trump, one quinceañera at a time

The Tejano singer trying to win back Latinos who voted for Trump, one quinceañera at a time

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Ed Pilkington in Edinburg, Texas, with photographs
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Bobby Pulido has a strategy: show up at the 15th birthday parties that are a rite of passage in the Texas borderlands - and flip a key House district for Democrats

It took all of two minutes for Bobby Pulido's electoral stealth weapon to come into play. The Tejano music star turned Democratic congressional candidate had barely begun canvassing in the high school football stadium in Edinburg, Texas, when a 15-year-old girl came rushing up to him.

Senor Pulido! Senor Pulido!" she cried. A few months ago, she told him, he had made a surprise appearance at her quinceanera, the coming-of-age girls' 15th birthday party that is a rite of passage in these US borderlands.

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