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

    May 17, 2021 4 minutes

    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.

    But Collier – a Democrat – isn’t jaded enough to turn his back on what he thinks is a winnable fight. And to him, the game’s just getting started.

    “We came out of the first half down by a field goal,” he told the Guardian. “Now,

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