Lt. Gov. candidate fights seemingly insurmountable odds in campaign stop
McALLEN — The small but spirited side room of supporters at Costa Messa this week welcomed the unlikely next lieutenant governor of Texas.
Polls have Mike Collier, the Democrat running to unseat cash-strapped and widely-known Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, behind by as close as a couple points and as far back as the mid-teens.
“Realistically, Collier has no chance whatsoever for victory simply because of the natural Republican lean of Texas,” said Mark Jones, a political scientist at Rice University’s Baker Institute of Public Policy. “State-wide, every Republican starts off with a 12 to 15 point advantage, and that’s what Dan Patrick has. But he’s not the most popular lieutenant governor.”
Don’t tell Collier his odds are long, as he travels the state and deploys “mean and lean” digital strategies. Collier, an accountant by trade who’s made several trips to the Rio Grande Valley in the last year, said he hopes to capitalize on how “incredibly unlikable” Patrick is, how he has no regard for health care, veterans and public education.
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