Bobby Pulido again defends Gerardo Ortiz’s graphic music video as controversy resurfaces in Monica De La Cruz House race

A controversy over a graphic music video depicting sexual violence has resurfaced in a key House race, according to Fox News Politics. The report says Bobby Pulido, a pop star-turned candidate running as a Democrat, defended the work of Gerardo Ortiz and that the defense has become a renewed talking point in the contest against Rep. Monica De La Cruz.

Fox News Politics characterizes the video as a “graphic murder” depiction and says Pulido defended Ortiz’s music video, including content the report describes as sexual violence. The report frames the issue as part of a broader line of criticism during the campaign, with opponents using the clip and Pulido’s prior comments to challenge his judgment and messaging.

In the House race, the renewed attention centers on how Pulido defended the video despite the nature of its depictions. The report does not describe an official legal action tied to the video, but it places Pulido’s defense in the context of electoral scrutiny over public-facing speech and campaign standards.

The matchup involves Pulido seeking to win a seat held by De La Cruz, a Texas Republican, the report says. As the campaign debate returns to the video, De La Cruz’s side is using the renewed controversy to argue that the candidate’s stance reflects values and priorities voters should weigh, while Pulido is presented in the report as having defended Ortiz’s work despite its explicit content.

The controversy also highlights the broader dispute common in political campaigns over whether a candidate can distance himself from past artistic or promotional statements. In this case, the report’s focus is less on whether the underlying art is protected expression in general and more on what voters are expected to make of Pulido’s defense of a specific depiction and its public circulation.

Because the reporting provided here is attribution-focused, some questions about the exact timeline and wording of Pulido’s defense are not verifiable from the single item alone. The report indicates the defense has “resurfaced,” suggesting it was raised before and is being repeated now, but it does not, in the provided summary, supply the precise dates, locations, or full text of the remarks.

With the House race continuing, the next development would be additional clarification from Pulido or De La Cruz’s campaign on the disputed defense, including any fuller quotations the parties may release and any updated campaign framing tied to the music video controversy.

Absent a separate primary record in the provided material, the dispute over the video’s depiction and Pulido’s defense remains a campaign controversy rather than a documented court or agency matter in the information available here.