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, the Tribune’s Jay Root and KUT’s Ben Philpott taped The Ticket before a crowd at KLRU’s historic studio 6A, former host of the iconic TV show Austin City Limits.

While the crowd was waiting on the third presidential debate, we talked about the future of the Republican and Democratic parties in Texas with Burnt Orange Report Publisher Lize Burr and Deirdre Delisi of Delisi Communications.

And because we know some people have been a little stressed out by this election, we invited some local comedians to lighten the mood.

Visit TheTicket2016.com, where you can find more episodes and links to subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, SoundCloud and Stitcher.

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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...