{"id":371047,"date":"2026-07-13T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371047\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:35:16","slug":"pulido-faces-fresh-scrutiny-in-tight-house-race-texas-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371047\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulido Faces Fresh Scrutiny in Tight House Race: Texas Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780462713_42_.png\" data-alignment=\"center\" data-size=\"embedded\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>In this issue: The Democratic nominee who says he didn\u2019t know a bandmate was a sex offender, Gibson Dunn\u2019s SpaceX world tour, and Logan Paul in court this week.<\/p>\n<p>Pulido Tries to Contain a Damaging Attack <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783946116_710_.jpeg\" data-alignment=\"center\" data-size=\"embedded\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>Photographer: Gabriel V. Cardenas\/Bloomberg <\/p>\n<p>Bobby Pulido \u2014 the Tejano music star running to unseat one of Texas\u2019 most vulnerable House Republicans \u2014 is doubling down on his denial that he knew one of his bandmates was a convicted child sex offender, Zach C. Cohen <a data-terminal-id=\"THZ3QMRKV2TD\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bgov.com\/bloomberg-government-news\/democrat-in-tight-texas-race-no-idea-of-bandmates-sex-crime\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz and other Republicans have blasted Pulido for his association with Frankie Caballero, an accordion player &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this issue: The Democratic nominee who says he didn\u2019t know a bandmate was a sex offender, Gibson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-371047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}