Texas Standard For March 5, 2020
More than two million Texans showed up to vote, but some of them had to wait for hours to cast a ballot. Voter suppression or mismanagement? We’ll explore. And: Now primary results are in, how useful were the polls leading up to the election? We’ll hear from one of the pollster at the University of Texas. Also: The growing number of Democrats who say Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders needs to pick a woman as a running mate, we’ll explore. Plus: Coronavirus fears harming business from Houston’s Chinatown to Austin’s SXSW. And what’s it like to be a U.S. soldier deployed to the border with Mexico? Those stories and more today on the Texas Standard:
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