PLANO, Texas — Every morning when Michael Patrick drops his kids off at school, he wonders if it’s the last time he’s going to see them.
“I have three young boys, all with autism,” the 36-year-old grocery manager said after a rally at a Plano event center with Beto O’Rourke and other Democratic hopefuls. “Every day I drop them off and I have that thought.”
Patrick, a Plano resident, said a major reason Collin County should turn from red to blue is the need to curb mass shootings, such as the one that killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde.