In the 30-second ads, Patrick runs a video of Collier saying there isn’t a “whole lot of daylight” between President Joe Biden’s policy point of view and his own.
Collier, an accountant with oil industry roots who lives in Kingwood, was a senior advisor for Biden when he was running for president.
“Dan Patrick wouldn’t be attacking energy expert Mike Collier on air unless his polls showed him losing,” said Ali S. Zaidi, Collier’s campaign manager. An August poll by the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin showed Patrick with a 7-percentage point lead over Collier, with 20 percent of voters still undecided. That poll had a margin of error of 2.8 points.Patrick, seeking a third 4-year term as lieutenant governor, has taken swipes at liberals and other foes in general but hasn’t gone all-out negative on TV since 2014 when he defeated GOP incumbent David Dewhurst in a primary.
Collier has been criticizing Patrick and Republican leaders for not fixing the state’s electricity grid. In his latest ads, Collier flashes photos of Patrick and says “our politics have been taken over by the extremes.”He had blown out every Democratic he faced since 2006, winning all of those races by 19 percentage points or more. But in 2018, Patrick had the closest general election of his career, defeating Collier 51 percent to 46 percent.
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