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The Ticket: Explaining the Insanity of the Delegate System

This week on The Ticket: KUT’s Ben Philpott and the Tribune's Jay Root explain the primary delegate system and revisit their dissection last summer of the Donald Trump campaign.

By Ben Philpott, KUT News, and Jay Root, The Texas Tribune
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This week on The Ticket 2016: Everything you wanted to know about how the presidential primary delegate system works … but were afraid to ask. We look at the number needed to win a party nomination, how different states dole them out and everything in between.

And with the first votes of 2016 about to be cast, hosts Jay Root and Ben Philpott will revisit their dissection last summer of the Donald Trump campaign on Stump Interrupted. 

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

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