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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick quipped during an interview with FNC's Laura Ingraham on Tuesday that if Colorado wants to take former President Trump off the 2024 ballot, maybe Texas should retaliate against President Biden for not enforcing border security

Both Republicans have been at odds with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and neither of them are running for reelection Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, one of Texas’ most prominent Republican local leaders, is backing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s Democratic challenger. “The one person who I’ll support statewide that will get me a little in trouble: Mike Collier for lieutenant governor,” Whitley said on Y’all-itics, a WFAA politics podcast. Whitley and Patrick have frequently clashed, and on the podcast Whitley slammed Patrick for waging “war on local elected officials.” Just days after Whitley made the endorsement that crossed party lines, an...

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is on the mend after testing positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated and receiving a booster shot.

Having lost a Texas state Senate race in 2020, Pete Flores is taking another crack at a post in a newly drawn district, earning the endorsement of former President Donald Trump to boot. Trump wrote Tuesday in a statement from his Save America PAC: "Pete Flores will be a great state senator for the terrific people of Central Texas. With 27 years in strong law enforcement, Pete will stand for law and order, loves our military and our vets, and will fight to secure our border. Pete is strong on our second amendment and will fight for low taxes. Pete...

Matthew Dowd, the former chief strategist of President George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection bid, is running as a Democrat for Texas lieutenant governor, kicking off a difficult fight to oust incumbent Dan Patrick. In a video announcing his campaign, Dowd railed against Patrick as a representative of only a small minority of Texans. He blamed Patrick for hampering local governments’ ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and failing to take charge after the state’s electric grid crashed earlier this year. “The GOP politicians have failed us, especially the cruel and craven lieutenant governor,” Dowd said.

Things are already heating up between Ken Paxton and George P. Bush over the potential Texas Attorney General GOP primary challenge. -snip- Paxton said of Bush. "I know for a fact that he's told people that he was either going to run for governor, lieutenant governor or against me." Paxton said that Bush "hates being land commissioner" and won't challenge Patrick or Abbott because they have too much cash to support their campaign. Paxton speculated Bush is "settling" for the AG run because he doesn't have as much money. "He's not going to run against me on the issues because...

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick hits back at corporations opposing proposed voting changes in his state.

Texas seems to be inching closer to passing Constitutional Carry in the state, an increasingly common law that allows Americans to own firearms without permission from the government. However, Texas Gun Rights, the Second Amendment activist group championing the bill, says Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has added a “poison pill” to the Senate version of the bill in a last minute bid to kill the legislation and prevent it from reaching Governor Greg Abbott’s desk.At least two Texas legislators have expressed concerns that Patrick added amendments to the Senate version of the bill that would legally force the Texas House...

The Texas House passed a strong Constitutional Carry bill (HB 1927) a week ago in a decisive 87-58 bipartisan vote. But instead of immediately moving HB 1927 forward in the Senate, Lt. Governor Patrick secured the votes Thursday to suspend the rules and file his own poison pill version of Constitutional Carry, SB 2224 – over a month past the filing deadline. SB 2224 is confusing and complicated. It creates profiling regulations that will burden law-abiding gun owners.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Monday that the state Senate does not currently have the votes to pass permitless carry of handguns but that he will try to see if there is a "path" to change that.

Voter fraud allegations don’t come cheap. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Tuesday he will pay up to $1 million “to incentivize, encourage and reward people to come for and report voter fraud” in the 2020 presidential election. People who have evidence that leads to an arrest and conviction will get a guaranteed payout of $25,000. Patrick, a Republican, is putting money where his mouth is as he echoes President Trump’s claims that the election, in which he trails President-elect Joe Biden, has been rife with fraud because of the widespread use this year of mail-in ballots. The money would...

Orange County Convention and Expo CenterOrange, TexasAugust 29, 20203:59 P.M. CDTTHE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much, everybody. I very much appreciate you being here. Thank you. And we — we love this state. It’s been a great state for me, and it’s been a great state for everybody in this room, I can tell you, Governor, right? And we’re here to help.We’re joined today by Governor Greg Abbott, a very special man. And he’s doing a fantastic job for the state of Texas, and he has from day one.And Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, another friend of mine. And thank...

Republican Texas Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick condemned calls to defund the police and the Black Lives Matter movement, calling people who want to send social workers to domestic disturbances “plain out idiotic” Monday. ...

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) on Tuesday lambasted Anthony Fauci over his assessment of the recent surge in coronavirus cases in the U.S., claiming that his state did not need advice from the nation's top infectious disease expert. "Fauci said that he’s concerned about states like Texas that skipped over certain things. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about," Patrick said on Fox News after Fauci testified before a Senate committee about the U.S. response to the coronavirus outbreak. "We haven’t skipped over anything." "The only thing I’m skipping over is listening to him," Patrick added. "He has been...

As debate rages over the use of mail-in voting in the upcoming presidential election, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick warned on Friday that when there is an opportunity to steal a vote, Democrats will take advantage of it. “They talk about safety for those 65 years or older. Well, the Centers for Disease Control put out a report last weekend that 80 percent of those who died from the coronavirus is 80 [years and older] and some states it is 85 [years and older],” Patrick told “America’s Newsroom.” Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday night touted a $3.6 billion...

On the 21st of April 1836, Sam Houston turned around the disaster of The Alamo and won freedom from Mexico for Texas. In 18 minutes. He was a leader who did not like war, who cared about people’s lives, about education, about his state and his nation’s unity and about freedom. He backed these feelings up with actions. Any one of these things is hard to be good at. What can we learn now from his example? Is this a time to be brave and ready for sacrifice? Is Dan Patrick a Herd Immunity Hero? Is pursuing that immunity our...

A simmering dispute over planned renovations to the Alamo erupted into a war of words between two Republican elected state officials this week. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick joined critics of Land Commissioner George P. Bush, who is overseeing the controversial Alamo redesign plan. Patrick accused Bush of broadly labeling detractors as “liars and racists.” Bush said Patrick twisted his words in what he labeled a “dangerous mistake.”{snip} In a Dec. 10 post, Range wrote that Bush intends to put up a statue of Antonio López de Santa Anna, the president who led Mexican troops against the defenders of the Alamo,...

Full Title: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on El Paso Shooting: "What Do We Expect" When Kids Play Video Games Instead Of Going To Church? Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican, told "FOX & Friends" Sunday morning that the mass shooting the previous day at an El Paso Wal-Mart was partially the result of the murderer living out a "super-soldier fantasy" he had learned from the video game series "Call Of Duty." "This was maybe a video game to this evil demon. A video game to him. He has no sense of humanity, no sense of life. He wanted...

Voters elected political newcomer Pete Flores to the Texas Senate on Tuesday, flipping a Democratic district red for the first time in 139 years and further bolstering Republicans’ supermajority in the chamber ahead of the November elections. A retired game warden, Flores defeated former state and U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego for the Senate District 19 seat after receiving backing from some of the state’s most prominent politicians, including Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and U.S. Sens John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. “We conservatives are conservative in the way we make approaches. The gun fight’s not over until the...

The Texas State Board of Education appears to have decided the heroism of the Alamo is worth teaching to students after all. State politicians erupted in protest this month after a volunteer team of educators, looking for ways to “streamline” the state’s social studies curriculum, recommended scrubbing references to “all the heroic defenders” at the Alamo from classroom teaching plans. Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, both Republicans, accused the panel of allowing the dictates of political correctness to run wild and demanded that Texans call the board to complain. Rep. Ted Poe showed up personally before the...