Monica De La Cruz
Republican · TX-15 · U.S. House
TX-15 — U.S. House
Lean R 72%Monica De La Cruz is on the ballot. Bobby Pulido vs. Monica De La Cruz. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
D +24 points of win probability since May.
Bio
Mónica de la Cruz is an American politician and insurance agent serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 15th congressional district since 2023. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 350 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 51
- George West, TX · 830-463-0800
- Three Rivers, TX · 830-463-0800
- Floresville, TX · 956-800-6069
- Karnes City, TX · 830-463-0800
- Seguin, TX · 830-463-0800
- Alice, TX · 956-800-6069
- Falfurrias, TX · 956-800-6069
- McAllen, TX · 956-800-6069
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $427k – $1.2M
- Liabilities
- $450k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- −$573k – $755k
- Since 2022
- −$217k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 23 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Monica De La Cruz's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Monica De La Cruz (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
Do you vote like Cruz?
Answer a few questions on the issues and see which members of Congress — and which party — actually line up with you.
Caucuses & committees
Where Cruzsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Most and least aligned members
Treating Cruz's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Texas rep ran ad starring cop fired for alleged sexual harassment and stalkingA recent ad by Rep. Monica De La Cruz spotlighted an endorsement from a cop who was fired from his prior job last year for alleged sexual harassment and stalking of a co-worker, The Post has learned.
New York Post · October 9, 2026
Transcript: Trump Polls Turn Brutal as Allies Panic: “Worse than 2006”The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Today we’re…
The New Republic · October 8, 2026
Shocking sleazy new details surface about Grammy-winning Texas Dem candidate: ‘Shhhh… it was our secret’Bobby Pulido, an award-winning singer and married dad of four sons, is locked in a competitive contest to unseat Republican incumbent Rep. Monica De La Cruz.
New York Post · October 5, 2026
Tejano singer trying to win back Latinos who voted for Trump, one quinceañera at a timeBobby Pulido pictured for the Guardian in September 2026.Photograph: Brenda Bazán/The Guardian 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 barel…
Yahoo Entertainment · October 4, 2026
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