# Post ts_117532334509827147

- Post ID: `ts_117532334509827147`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-10-30T22:58:20.308Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
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## Post text

> Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz is doing an incredible job representing the wonderful people of Texas’ 15th Congressional District!
>
> A very successful Small Businesswoman, Monica knows the AMERICA FIRST Policies necessary to Create GREAT Jobs, Unleash Innovation, and Restore American Energy DOMINANCE. Her opponent, Bobby Pulido, is a Radical Left Democrat who is opposed to NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, and NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY and, if he and the Dumocrats ever got in, all of these things will be terminated. He wants massive Tax Increases, Open Borders, Men playing in Women’s Sports, and Transgender Mutilization of your Children. Bobby Pulido is Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous!
>
> On the other hand, in Congress, Monica is fighting tirelessly to Grow our Economy Cut Taxes and Regulations, Keep our Border SECURE, Champion our Farmers and American Agriculture, Support our Brave Military/Veterans, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment.
>
> Monica De La Cruz has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR MONICA — SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
> https://swampthevoteusa.com/texas/

## Engagement

- Likes: 139
- Reposts: 43
- Replies: 4
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-10-30T23:00:53.957Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-10-31T08:02:54.305Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## One template, five Texas districts in a row

This is one of at least six Texas House endorsements posted on 2026-10-30, four days before the midterm. The previous posts in context cover TX-17 (Sessions), TX-19 (Sell), TX-21 (Teixeira), TX-22 (Nehls) and TX-23 (Herrera). Together they show the same parts swapped in and out. The attack paragraph here matches the TX-23 post word for word except for the opponent's name and pronoun: "is a Radical Left Democrat who is opposed to NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, and NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY and, if he and the Dumocrats ever got in, all of these things will be terminated." The policy list ("Grow our Economy Cut Taxes and Regulations, Keep our Border SECURE, Champion our Farmers and American Agriculture, Support our Brave Military/Veterans, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment") recurs across the batch with small changes, and the TX-17 and TX-21 posts both use the quoted phrase "loaded up" with accolades. The sign-off, "Complete and Total Endorsement," and the closing capitalized call to vote are the standard endorsement format of 2024 to 2026.

## Who wrote it

The post went up at 22:58 UTC, which is 6:58 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Clocks had not yet changed back, and he was most likely at the White House or on the East Coast late in the campaign. That is early evening, at the end of a working day, not the late-night window where his unedited posting clusters. The structure does more to settle authorship than the clock does. The post runs in a fixed order (praise the incumbent, credentials, opponent attack, record list, endorsement, link). The candidate's name and district are correct. It includes a GOTV URL (swampthevoteusa.com/texas/) and signs off in the third person as "President DONALD J. TRUMP." The capitals are the house style of the endorsement template ("AMERICA FIRST Policies," "Energy DOMINANCE"), not the uneven bursts of capitals in his reactive posts.

The template's errors don't point to him either. "Dumocrats" is his own coinage, but it is now built into the template and appears identically in the TX-23 post. "Transgender Mutilization" is a non-word blending "mutilation" and "mutilization" that has run through these endorsements for months. Since the same error repeats on schedule across posts, it was copied, not slipped into. The one organic-looking mistake is the missing comma in "Grow our Economy Cut Taxes," which is too small to carry weight. Because the text was assembled from stock parts, it gives no usable evidence of his current language production. Nothing here can be compared against a baseline.

## What the template does psychologically

The post's motive is coalition management, not self-display. He hands out his endorsement as something valuable ("has my Complete and Total Endorsement"), and that is a status motive at work. The approving phrase that drives it, "SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN," is loyalty language that turns a voter's choice into a personal reliability test. The candidate's merit is measured by how well she fits his agenda ("Monica knows the AMERICA FIRST Policies"), so she appears as his agent more than as an independent figure.

The attack on Bobby Pulido is splitting in a standardized form. One candidate is "doing an incredible job" and "fighting tirelessly," and the other is "Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous!" Nothing sits in between. The charges are interchangeable: the same three tax provisions, plus "massive Tax Increases, Open Borders, Men playing in Women's Sports, and Transgender Mutilization of your Children," get attached to whichever Democrat fills the slot. Pulido is a Tejano music figure who ran as a border-district moderate. Labeling him "Radical Left" without any reference to his own record is devaluation by category. It shows the template's design, not a grievance against this particular person. The post shows no sign of narcissistic injury or rage. Nothing in it reacts to an event, a critic, or a slight, and the personal grievance and self-reference that mark his reactive posts never appear. It reads as routine maintenance at high volume.

## Rhetoric and its targets

The persuasion follows a familiar loss-frame pattern. Popular tax benefits are presented as already won, and an opposition majority is presented as an immediate threat to them ("all of these things will be terminated"). Fear of loss does the work, backed by a culture-war appeal to fear about children ("your Children"). That phrase is the most charged in the post, and it frames gender-affirming care as mutilation aimed at the reader's own family. It stigmatizes trans people, but it doesn't call for action against any person. Pulido is named as an opponent to vote against, not as a target, so no stochastic pattern is present. On the order and chaos axis the post casts Republicans as order restorers ("Keep our Border SECURE," "always under siege Second Amendment"), with Democrats bringing disorder at the border, in tax policy and in gender norms. The archetypes are King and Warrior at the minimum level the template requires: he confers legitimacy, and she fights.

## Claims

The tax claims stretch what was enacted. The 2025 reconciliation law created temporary deductions for tip and overtime income and an added deduction for seniors. It did not exempt Social Security benefits from tax. A Democratic House alone could not end any of these while he holds the veto. The positions attributed to Pulido are pasted unchanged onto at least one other Democrat in the same batch, and none is tied to a statement of his.

## Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Monica De La Cruz is a very successful small businesswoman" | **Mostly True** | Before Congress, De La Cruz ran an insurance agency and was involved in real estate in the Rio Grande Valley, and she campaigned as a small-business owner. 'Very successful' is promotional, but the small-business background is accurate. |
| "No tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security are policies in place that a Democratic majority would terminate" | **Mostly False** | The July 2025 reconciliation law created temporary, capped deductions for tip and overtime income, plus an extra $6,000 deduction for seniors running through 2028. It did not exempt Social Security benefits from income tax. A Democratic House majority could not repeal any of these on its own while the President holds the veto. |
| "Bobby Pulido is opposed to no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security" | **Mostly False** | No source shows Pulido opposing any of the three provisions. He has never held office, so he cast no vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1), which created them. His campaign issues page (economy, agriculture, border, healthcare, education, water) never mentions tips or overtime. It mentions Social Security only to call Medicare a promise "like Social Security" that should be kept and strengthened. October 2026 race coverage (KRGV, Texas Public Radio/Texas Standard, Texas Tribune via Click2Houston/MyRGV, USA Today, The Texan, Roll Call, Mother Jones) quotes nothing from him against the deductions.

His documented objections to the megabill are different ones. He criticized De La Cruz for voting for a bill he says puts Medicaid and South Texas seniors at risk, and for its ICE funding increase. On taxes, he wants to raise taxes on corporations and the highest earners to cut the deficit (KRGV, Texas Tribune). That is a different target from tips, overtime or seniors.

The attack itself is a stock line. Trump's same-day TX-23 endorsement uses the identical sentence with only the name changed. A FactCheck.org piece from October 2026 calls GOP attacks of this shape misleading. It notes the tips provision passed the Senate 100-0 as a standalone bill. It also finds many Democratic candidates, including first-time candidates with no record, say they support the tips, overtime and senior provisions while opposing the bill's Medicaid and SNAP cuts. The provisions are also narrower than the slogan: they are temporary, capped deductions that expire after 2028, and Social Security benefits are still taxed (the law adds a senior deduction).

The rating is mostly false rather than false because no source shows Pulido explicitly endorsing the provisions either. The claim of active opposition has no support, and his stated tax and economic positions point elsewhere. |
| "Pulido wants massive tax increases, open borders, men in women's sports and transgender procedures on children" | **Mostly False** | This is four charges in one, and only the first has any factual basis.

Tax increases: partly grounded. KRGV and the Texas Tribune report that Pulido proposes cutting the federal deficit partly by raising taxes on corporations and the highest earners. He also said "I don't attack the rich" because "people here want to be rich." A tax increase aimed at the top is real, but "massive" is the post's own characterization, and the post presents it as falling on the district's voters.

Open borders: contradicted. Pulido has said "I'm absolutely not a proponent of open borders. Never have been, never will be" and "President Biden failed us on the border." A Rolling Stone interview, as reported secondhand, had him criticizing both Biden's border policy and Trump's mass deportations. His platform calls for a secure, consistent border, removing violent criminals in the country illegally, going after fentanyl and cartel supply lines, and more vetting hubs in Central America. He told KRGV that a deportation force to remove "bad people" is needed, and he opposes abolishing ICE. He does back a path to legal status or citizenship and criticizes aggressive ICE tactics. That is a dispute over enforcement, not an open-borders position.

Men in women's sports: unsupported. No statement from Pulido backing transgender athletes in girls' or women's sports was found. He calls himself a "conservative Democrat" and "culturally conservative." In the Texas Observer he said many Valley voters raised "biological men playing in women's sports" with him, but none had experienced it or knew of a case. That plays down the issue rather than endorsing anything. Texas Monthly notes he has not separated himself from the party the way Reps. Cuellar and Gonzalez did when they voted for the House trans-athlete bill. Since he has never voted on it, that is an absence of a stance, not support.

Transgender procedures on children: no evidence at all. Nothing on his campaign site, in candidate comparison databases (smarter.vote) or in any race coverage mentions gender-affirming care for minors. Coverage repeatedly says he avoids social issues and runs on cost of living, healthcare, water and immigration.

Overall, one element has partial support (tax increases on corporations and top earners), one is directly contradicted by his own words (open borders), and two have no evidence behind them. The same charges appear across Trump's same-day batch of Texas House endorsements, which points to a template rather than anything specific to Pulido. |

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 10%)

### Indicators

- Text identical to the TX-23 endorsement posted the same day except for the opponent's name and pronoun
- Fixed endorsement structure: praise, credentials, opponent attack, record list, endorsement, GOTV link
- Third-person sign-off 'President DONALD J. TRUMP'
- Campaign URL appended (swampthevoteusa.com/texas/)
- Posted 6:58 pm EDT as part of a batch of at least six Texas House endorsements

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 70%
- Agreeableness: 30%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 30%
- Openness: 20%

Strongest facet: Assertiveness (conferring endorsement, issuing a capitalized call to vote)

**Motives:**
- Agency: 75%
- Communion: 30%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** Patron and kingmaker conferring legitimacy on loyal candidates
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** Bobby Pulido and the 'Dumocrats'

**Identity Claims:**
- His endorsement is decisive ('Complete and Total Endorsement')
- His policies are the measure of a good legislator ('AMERICA FIRST Policies')

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Final-week midterm endorsement batch for Texas House races)

Sentiment: +0.25

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 25%
- Antisocial: 10%
- Paranoid: 15%
- Sadism: 5%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- splitting (immature)
- devaluation (immature)
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 40%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to voters ('your Children')
- Capitalized imperative 'GET OUT AND VOTE FOR MONICA'
- Personal guarantee of the candidate's loyalty ('SHE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN')

## Fact Checks (4)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-10-31._

> Monica De La Cruz is a very successful small businesswoman

**MOSTLY TRUE**

Before Congress, De La Cruz ran an insurance agency and was involved in real estate in the Rio Grande Valley, and she campaigned as a small-business owner. 'Very successful' is promotional, but the small-business background is accurate.

Sources: House.gov member biography; Texas Tribune coverage of TX-15 races

> No tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security are policies in place that a Democratic majority would terminate

**MOSTLY FALSE**

The July 2025 reconciliation law created temporary, capped deductions for tip and overtime income, plus an extra $6,000 deduction for seniors running through 2028. It did not exempt Social Security benefits from income tax. A Democratic House majority could not repeal any of these on its own while the President holds the veto.

Sources: One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Pub. L. 119-21); IRS guidance on tip, overtime and senior deductions

> Bobby Pulido is opposed to no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security

**MOSTLY FALSE**

No source shows Pulido opposing any of the three provisions. He has never held office, so he cast no vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1), which created them. His campaign issues page (economy, agriculture, border, healthcare, education, water) never mentions tips or overtime. It mentions Social Security only to call Medicare a promise "like Social Security" that should be kept and strengthened. October 2026 race coverage (KRGV, Texas Public Radio/Texas Standard, Texas Tribune via Click2Houston/MyRGV, USA Today, The Texan, Roll Call, Mother Jones) quotes nothing from him against the deductions.

His documented objections to the megabill are different ones. He criticized De La Cruz for voting for a bill he says puts Medicaid and South Texas seniors at risk, and for its ICE funding increase. On taxes, he wants to raise taxes on corporations and the highest earners to cut the deficit (KRGV, Texas Tribune). That is a different target from tips, overtime or seniors.

The attack itself is a stock line. Trump's same-day TX-23 endorsement uses the identical sentence with only the name changed. A FactCheck.org piece from October 2026 calls GOP attacks of this shape misleading. It notes the tips provision passed the Senate 100-0 as a standalone bill. It also finds many Democratic candidates, including first-time candidates with no record, say they support the tips, overtime and senior provisions while opposing the bill's Medicaid and SNAP cuts. The provisions are also narrower than the slogan: they are temporary, capped deductions that expire after 2028, and Social Security benefits are still taxed (the law adds a senior deduction).

The rating is mostly false rather than false because no source shows Pulido explicitly endorsing the provisions either. The claim of active opposition has no support, and his stated tax and economic positions point elsewhere.

Sources: https://bobbypulidofortexas.com/; https://bobbypulidofortexas.com/issues; https://www.krgv.com/news/cost-of-living-border-policy-take-center-stage-in-texas-district-15-race/; https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2026/10/16/bobby-pulido-pitches-himself-as-the-democrat-you-used-to-vote-for-in-bid-to-oust-rep-monica-de-la-cruz/; https://myrgv.com/local-news/2026/10/18/bobby-pulido-pitches-himself-as-the-democrat-you-used-to-vote-for-in-bid-to-oust-rep-monica-de-la-cruz/; https://texasstandard.org/stories/bobby-pulido-challenge-monica-de-la-cruz-tests-republican-gains-south-texas/; https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2026-10-11/bobby-pulidos-challenge-to-monica-de-la-cruz-tests-republicans-gains-in-south-texas; https://www.factcheck.org/2026/10/misleading-gop-attacks-over-taxes-on-tips-overtime-social-security/; https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fact-check-did-democrats-vote-against-no-tax-on-tips-overtime-and-social-security/; https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/bobby-pulido-tejano-star-trying-113749595.html; https://thetexan.news/elections/2026/republican-de-la-cruz-democrat-pulido-on-last-lap-of-texas-congressional-district-15/article_cca66236-b616-4699-adc4-f52578a4cb1e.html; https://smarter.vote/races/tx-house-15-2026/compare/; https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/42762

> Pulido wants massive tax increases, open borders, men in women's sports and transgender procedures on children

**MOSTLY FALSE**

This is four charges in one, and only the first has any factual basis.

Tax increases: partly grounded. KRGV and the Texas Tribune report that Pulido proposes cutting the federal deficit partly by raising taxes on corporations and the highest earners. He also said "I don't attack the rich" because "people here want to be rich." A tax increase aimed at the top is real, but "massive" is the post's own characterization, and the post presents it as falling on the district's voters.

Open borders: contradicted. Pulido has said "I'm absolutely not a proponent of open borders. Never have been, never will be" and "President Biden failed us on the border." A Rolling Stone interview, as reported secondhand, had him criticizing both Biden's border policy and Trump's mass deportations. His platform calls for a secure, consistent border, removing violent criminals in the country illegally, going after fentanyl and cartel supply lines, and more vetting hubs in Central America. He told KRGV that a deportation force to remove "bad people" is needed, and he opposes abolishing ICE. He does back a path to legal status or citizenship and criticizes aggressive ICE tactics. That is a dispute over enforcement, not an open-borders position.

Men in women's sports: unsupported. No statement from Pulido backing transgender athletes in girls' or women's sports was found. He calls himself a "conservative Democrat" and "culturally conservative." In the Texas Observer he said many Valley voters raised "biological men playing in women's sports" with him, but none had experienced it or knew of a case. That plays down the issue rather than endorsing anything. Texas Monthly notes he has not separated himself from the party the way Reps. Cuellar and Gonzalez did when they voted for the House trans-athlete bill. Since he has never voted on it, that is an absence of a stance, not support.

Transgender procedures on children: no evidence at all. Nothing on his campaign site, in candidate comparison databases (smarter.vote) or in any race coverage mentions gender-affirming care for minors. Coverage repeatedly says he avoids social issues and runs on cost of living, healthcare, water and immigration.

Overall, one element has partial support (tax increases on corporations and top earners), one is directly contradicted by his own words (open borders), and two have no evidence behind them. The same charges appear across Trump's same-day batch of Texas House endorsements, which points to a template rather than anything specific to Pulido.

Sources: https://bobbypulidofortexas.com/issues; https://www.krgv.com/news/cost-of-living-border-policy-take-center-stage-in-texas-district-15-race/; https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2026/10/16/bobby-pulido-pitches-himself-as-the-democrat-you-used-to-vote-for-in-bid-to-oust-rep-monica-de-la-cruz/; https://thetexan.news/elections/2026/republican-de-la-cruz-democrat-pulido-on-last-lap-of-texas-congressional-district-15/article_cca66236-b616-4699-adc4-f52578a4cb1e.html; https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/bobby-pulido-officially-running-congress-south-texas-1235429306/; https://www.cronica.com.mx/tendencias/2026/10/15/bobby-pulido-la-voz-de-desvelado-busca-el-congreso-para-frenar-al-trumpismo-en-texas/; https://www.texasobserver.org/south-texas-primary-bobby-pulido-latino-voters/; https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/south-texas-democrats-bobby-pulido/; https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/bobby-pulido-texas-congress-de-la-cruz/; https://texasstandard.org/stories/bobby-pulido-challenge-monica-de-la-cruz-tests-republican-gains-south-texas/; https://smarter.vote/races/tx-house-15-2026/compare/; https://rollcall.com/2026/09/22/in-south-texas-bobby-pulido-urges-voters-to-see-beyond-red-and-blue/; https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/bobby-pulido-tejano-star-trying-113749595.html; https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5085485-cuellar-gonzalez-transgender-athletes-bill/; https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-trans-rights-boys-in-girls-sports_n_6aada536e4b0a3bc8deb66e3

Overall Veracity: 35%

## Tags

- endorsement (95%)
- templated-batch (90%)
- midterms-2026 (85%)
- texas-15 (70%)
- tax-policy-claims (60%)
- anti-trans-framing (50%)
- splitting (50%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Florida and Texas Republicans endorsed one district at a time, counting down to District 1, around a Daytona rally**

The Friday before the midterms came in two halves. From before dawn into the early morning he ran his own feed: a crowd clip full of golf banter, a claim that inflation is "way down" when the latest figures showed it rising, a meme in which Jesus tells Obama he "sent Trump," and more on the Russia investigation he says framed him. After a long quiet stretch, the campaign machinery took over the evening around a rally in Daytona Beach, posting near-identical endorsements for Republicans in Colorado, Florida and Texas district by district, counting down to District 1, at times several a minute. He stayed cheerful and boastful all day. The harshest words he shared were other people's, including an ad claiming communists and radical Islamists are taking over the Democratic Party.

Full digest for 2026-10-30: https://trump.fm/date/2026-10-30/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, October 30). Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz is doing an... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117532334509827147
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz is doing an incredible job..." Truth Social, 30 Oct. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117532334509827147. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz is doing an incredible job...," Truth Social, October 30, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117532334509827147.

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