Texans for Dan Patrick

Yeah, I mean, if you're taking the best candidates out there, right, for Baylor, I do think that Lincoln Riley is one.

Spencer Danielson, the coach at Boise State, is another great option.

Jeff Traylor at UTSA, I believe, is a great option.

But Lincoln Riley in particular knows how to win in the Big 12, knew how to win in the Big 12 when there was also Oklahoma football.

But this year, polls suggest it could be an unusually competitive contest.

On Friday, we profiled Democratic State Representative Vikki Goodwin, who is trying to unseat Republican Dan Patrick.

He's seeking his fourth term as Lieutenant Governor.

Today, the Texas newsroom's Blaise Ganey traces Patrick's rise from Houston airwaves to the statehouse and looks at what he says he'd do with another four years in office.

Long before he was presiding over the Texas Senate, Dan Patrick was a broadcaster.

That brought him to Houston in 1979 when he became a sportscaster at the local CBS affiliate KHOU.

Here he is reporting from the Astrodome.

Safe travels and appreciate it.

Speaking of people in high office, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick with us next.

830 into the newsroom.

Here's Nikki.

Are we ready? Are we ready to show people what Texas is made of? I've couched it and phrased it in certain ways very much on purpose.

I have said there is no way Tallarico wins.

There's no way Dan Patrick loses.

There's no way Greg Abbott loses.

We've got more about the Senate hopeful's rise in politics.

And Dan Patrick is seeking his fourth term as lieutenant governor of Texas.

The Republican incumbent is facing an unusually competitive race against another Austin state rep, Vicki Goodwin.

We're going to tell you more about the power Patrick has built over nearly two decades in the Capitol.

The lieutenant governor of Texas is one of the most powerful jobs in state government and has been held by a Republican since 1999.

This year, it's one of several high profile statewide races where polls suggest unusually competitive contests.

Republican Dan Patrick was first sworn in as lieutenant governor in 2015 and is currently seeking his fourth term running against Democratic State Representative Vicki Goodwin.

Last week, we told you more about the role and the Democratic nominee.

Okay, next.

Republican statewide candidates, Rick Jackson in Georgia, Dan Patrick in Texas, are publicly begging rural voters to vote early because they're openly panicking about their relative turnout so far.

Okay.

And that's true.

We could play a Dan Patrick for you.

We can play a Rick Jackson for you.

No point, but that's what's going on.

How do I know to believe him? Kind of stuff like E-caliber seven, like Ethan says.

Abbott over Gina Hinojosa.

Dan Patrick over Vicki Goodwin.

Lieutenant Governor's on with us at 835 today.

Always a good interview.

And then somebody is going to start, you know, to complain about property taxes.

At which point you say, yes, you are correct, sir or madam.

But Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and your local state rep are going to be a darn sight better getting us.

And this is a marathon, not a sprint.

You may have noticed that on the radio today.

It has seemed a bit like the get out the vote rally, like we're trying to just – and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was certainly up for the task of just gently – maybe not so gently – prodding people toward their own best fate.

If you think of yourself as remotely a Republican or remotely a Democrat – And I really, really do feel like some of the the the internecine primary squabbles, the intra party stuff.

I think there's nothing like an approaching election that gives people some clarity.

It would be really, really, really good.

I've known Lee for a long, long time.

Her work at Patriot Mobile, her work broadly defined in conservative activism has I mean, she's been a Tarrant County executive committee member, longtime conservative activist, fundraiser, got the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick endorsement.

State Rep Nate Schatzlein dropped his own bid and endorsed her.

And so I'm not so worried about him, and I think the only thing they're going to really do to combat him would be they would have to cheat because there's so many – Republicans that are going to skip that race, feel justified stepping.

But I don't understand the difference between him, Abbott, Dan Patrick.

All of them have to go.

They are corrupt.

who outside of belonging to the same Tarrant County Republican Party has never been exactly allies with Beau French.

Parker has regularly condemned him for his long history of disgusting and racist diatribes and sided with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and other GOP notables when they unsuccessfully tried to get French to step down from Republican Party leadership in Tarrant County.

As far as Nate Sheets, it's entirely possible that Trump has simply never heard of him.

While Democratic nominee Clayton Tucker has been working the campaign trail hard for almost a year and a half, making lots and lots of new friends and even appearing alongside current but primary doubt Republican Ag Commissioner Sid Miller.