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February 20, 2024

Who are the two Democrats running in the Travis County District Attorney primary?

By: Ben Philpott

The full transcript of this episode of KUT News Now is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is also available as subtitles or captions on some podcast apps.

One of the biggest races locally in the March 5th primaries is the race in the Democratic primary for District Attorney. Daniel Betts is running unopposed in the Republican primary. So we have two stories on those two Democratic candidates. We’ll kick off our coverage with KUT’s Luz Moreno-Lozano. She sat down with the man challenging the incumbent D.A.

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