The Independent - 05.03.2020

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THURSDAY 5 MARCH 2020

America has decided it wants


an old man to lead it


Either Biden or Sanders will face Trump in November (AFP/Getty)


TOM PECK


Super Tuesday probably didn’t feel all that super for a man called Hervis Rogers, who spent fully seven
hours of it waiting in line to vote at Texas Southern University. From the picture taken by a reporter from
CNN, Rogers appears to be what you might call middle aged, though in American political terms is barely
out of kindergarten.


It is also relevant to note that Rogers is black, and his seven-hour wait is what has come to be known as
“voter suppression”. It has come to be known as that in the several decades in which nothing meaningful


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