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 our presidential race podcast: Jay Root and KUT’s Ben Philpott talk with national Hispanic activist and former Jeb Bush supporter Temo Muniz about the Republican primaries. Specifically, what do he and other conservative Hispanics do now that Bush is out of the race, and ideas like the mass-deportation of 12 million immigrants are being pushed by frontrunner Donald Trump?

We also talk about the polls heading into Super Tuesday with Jim Henson, the director of the Texas Politics Project at University of Texas at Austin.

Visit TheTicket2016.com, where you can find more episodes of The Ticket and links to subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher.

Disclosure: The University of Texas at Austin is a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune. A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here.

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...