‘We’re gonna win the second half’: the Texas Democrat eyeing 2022 victory

Mike Collier lost out to the Trumpist Dan Patrick for lieutenant governor last time but thinks he better embodies the state's progressive past - and future

No football team ever lost a game, says Mike Collier. The players just ran out of time.

In 2018, Collier tried to unseat the Republican incumbent, Dan Patrick, as Texas's lieutenant governor, arguably the most powerful role in state government. He watched poll numbers trend closer and closer - until Patrick bested him by just under five points.