Analysis: Carlos De La Cruz has my Complete and Total Endorsement to b...

12h ago Sep 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Carlos De La Cruz has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next U.S. Representative from Texas’ 35th Congressional District — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Video transcript 1:08

Hello, Texas. On November 3rd, I'm asking you to get out and vote for Carlos de la Cruz. Carlos is running to be the next congressman from Texas's 35th Congressional District, a special place. He is my complete and total endorsement. Carlos spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force fighting terrorists in the Middle East and cartels on our southern border. He then became a small business owner and has had incredible success. Carlos de la Cruz has always been a fighter, a leader, and a winner. In Congress, he will vote to support our farmers and ranchers, defend the strongest border our country has ever had, and give America the greatest economy in the history of the world. He will vote to cut your taxes and deliver free and fair elections by passing the Save America Act. This November, go out and vote for Carlos de la Cruz for Congress. He will not let you down. Texas, we won every time, and we're going to win this one for Carlos. Thank you very much.

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AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-09-18. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Aide-Written

Intensity

25%

Authorship Analysis

Aide-Written

Indicators:

Fixed endorsement template shared verbatim with five other posts the same day
Third-person signature 'President DONALD J. TRUMP'
Posted 2:30 p.m. Eastern, during business hours
No typos, drift, or asides in the text
Video is a first-person address, likely recorded by Trump from a prepared script with a named bill and a résumé line

Psychological Profile

▶ Traits

Big Five:

Extraversion

70%

Agreeableness

45%

Conscientiousness

60%

Neuroticism

20%

Openness

30%

Strongest facet: Assertiveness (the endorser as kingmaker)

Agency

75%

Communion

35%

Primary drive: power

▶ Narrative

Role: Kingmaker and patron handing out legitimacy · Arc: neutral · Contrasting: Implicit opposition to 'free and fair elections' (unnamed)

His endorsement is a personal, total guaranteeHis record includes the strongest border and the greatest economy everHe wins Texas every time

▶ State

Grandiose State

Trigger: Maintenance (Midterm endorsement slate for redrawn Texas districts)

Sentiment

+0.65

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

30%

Antisocial

Paranoid

Sadism

Defense Mechanisms:

idealization

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

30%

Parasocial Techniques:

Direct second-person address to voters ('Hello, Texas… I'm asking you')Shared-victory framing ('we won every time, and we're going to win this one for Carlos')Personal guarantee of the candidate's loyalty ('He will not let you down')

Fact Checks (3)

"The election is on November 3rd (from the video, spoken in the first person)"

True

The 2026 U.S. general election falls on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.

"Texas, we won every time (from the video, spoken in the first person)"

True

Trump carried Texas in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections.

"The strongest border our country has ever had (from the video, spoken in the first person)"

Half True

Southwest border encounters in 2025 fell to their lowest levels in decades, which supports a claim of sharply reduced crossings. 'Strongest ever' is a superlative with no agreed measure, so the claim goes beyond the data.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

One card in a batch of Texas endorsements

This post came out during a run of identically formatted endorsements on September 18. The day's earlier posts backed Monica De La Cruz (TX-15), Tano Tijerina (TX-28), Eric Flores (TX-34), Stacy Garrity (Pennsylvania governor) and Jon Husted (Ohio Senate). The text follows that template word for word: "[Name] has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next U.S. Representative from…", then "HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!" and the signature "President DONALD J. TRUMP." Only the name and district number change. Four of the day's cards cover South and Central Texas seats, which fits a campaign aimed at districts redrawn in Texas's 2025 mid-decade redistricting. TX-35 in particular was moved from a Democratic Austin–San Antonio seat into more favorable territory. The slate reads as party strategy, and it gives no sign of a personal relationship with this candidate.

Who wrote it

The post went up at 18:30 UTC, which is 2:30 p.m. Eastern or 1:30 p.m. Central, during business hours wherever he was that week after the Ireland trip. Everything in the text points to staff. The card is a fixed form. It signs off in the third person as "President DONALD J. TRUMP", the stylized capitals are identical on every card, and it has no typos, no drift and no aside. The capitals in "HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!" are part of the template, so they show nothing about his mood. The attached video is a different matter. It is a first-person address ("Hello, Texas… I'm asking you to get out and vote"), so he most likely recorded it himself, reading a prepared script. The script is professionally written. It includes a résumé line ("20 years in the U.S. Air Force fighting terrorists in the Middle East and cartels on our southern border"), a list of policy votes and a named bill ("the Save America Act"). That precision is a speechwriter's work.

What the video claims for him

The script turns the candidate into a stand-in for Trump's own record. De La Cruz will "defend the strongest border our country has ever had" and "give America the greatest economy in the history of the world". Both superlatives describe Trump's administration, and the candidate is only there to protect them. His praise of the candidate as "a fighter, a leader, and a winner" uses the three roles Trump usually claims for himself. It is idealization, with the endorsee given the patron's traits. The close, "Texas, we won every time, and we're going to win this one for Carlos", puts Trump's own electoral record into the race and makes the candidate's win a continuation of his. The phrase "He is my complete and total endorsement" merges the person with the endorsement. It comes from repeating the formula over and over and is not a language error.

Motive and state

The post is routine midterm work six weeks before November 3. He speaks as the patron who hands out legitimacy, and "my Complete and Total Endorsement" is presented as something he gives and the candidate receives. No attack or wound sets it off, and it names no opponent. The only implied other is the unnamed opposition that "free and fair elections" and the Save America Act are meant to guard against. That phrasing carries the long-running claim that elections are insecure, but here it stays a policy line and names no target. The grandiosity is mild and fixed by the template. Nothing in the text or the scripted video shows anger, feeling persecuted, or cognitive slippage, and the scripted form makes it a poor sample for cognitive tracking anyway.

Claims

The text makes no factual claim. In the video, the election date is correct (November 3, 2026), and so is "we won every time" in Texas (he carried the state in 2016, 2020 and 2024). "The strongest border our country has ever had" is a superlative. It rests on real numbers, since border encounters in 2025 fell to their lowest in decades, but "strongest ever" can't be measured. The candidate's Air Force service and business success come from the campaign script and are not checked here.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"The election is on November 3rd (from the video, spoken in the first person)"	True	The 2026 U.S. general election falls on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
"Texas, we won every time (from the video, spoken in the first person)"	True	Trump carried Texas in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections.
"The strongest border our country has ever had (from the video, spoken in the first person)"	Half True	Southwest border encounters in 2025 fell to their lowest levels in decades, which supports a claim of sharply reduced crossings. 'Strongest ever' is a superlative with no agreed measure, so the claim goes beyond the data.

Overall Veracity: 83%