The Ticket was a weekly look at presidential politics from a Texas perspective in the leadup to the 2016 election. It included veteran political reporters Jay Root of The Texas Tribune and Ben Philpott of KUT News. Find it on SoundCloud and Stitcher. More in this series

The Ticket: Hillary Clinton and Garry Mauro

In this week’s episode of The Ticket, a co-production of the Tribune and KUT, Jay and Ben break down Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign announcement video and talk with Garry Mauro, a four-term Texas land commissioner and director of multiple state presidential campaigns. He’s unofficially (for now) working to elect Clinton president in 2016.

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Ben Philpott is a senior reporter for KUT-FM, Austin’s National Public Radio affiliate. He has been covering state politics and dozens of other topics for the station since 2002, during which time he...

Jay Root is an award-winning journalist who reported for the Tribune from 2011 to 2020. He covered the dramatic collapse of Gov. Rick Perry’s 2012 presidential campaign and went on to write an ebook...