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

This week on The Ticket 2016: The Texas Tribune’s Jay Root and KUT’s Ben Philpott get you ready for the South Carolina primaries by explaining who’s voting, who’s still running and what could happen on each party’s election night. And we’ll get an update on what’s happening in Texas as we get closer to Super Tuesday – with Democratic strategist Colin Strother. 

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...