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: In the wake of another horrific mass shooting, the presidential candidates were quick to explain how their administration would help reduce this kind of crime. KUT’s Ben Philpott and The Texas Tribune’s Jay Root put two recent campaign speeches by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton under the microscope.

And while Hillary Clinton has said Texas will be in play in 2016, not many Democrats in the state agree. Ben and Jay talk with Democratic strategist Colin Strother about the sea change that would need to occur.

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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...