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The Ticket: How the Paris Attacks Affect 2016 GOP Campaigns

This week on The Ticket: Jay Root and Ben Philpott talk about how the recent terrorist attacks in Paris are already playing a role in the 2016 campaign.

By Ben Philpott, KUT News, and Jay Root, The Texas Tribune
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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. 

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This week on The Ticket:: KUT’s Ben Philpott and The Texas Tribune’s Jay Root dive into how U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is incorporating the terrorist attacks in Paris into his presidential campaign. Ben and Jay also examine how those attacks could support Cruz's calls for a harder line on immigration.

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