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"Are you Val Demings?" an excited teenager asked as she approached the Florida congresswoman in the basement of the Cannon House Office Building last week.

"Yes, I am," Demings confirmed.

"Oh, my God, you did so amazing during impeachment," said the teenager, who identified herself as Catherine from Kentucky, offering a few more compliments before running to catch up with her tour group.

Young voters and black voters were two of the demographics that helped former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders emerge as the clear front-runners on Super Tuesday. But how voters made decisions around issues like health care and electability were more complicated, highlighting some of the challenges the two candidates will face in the final months before the Democratic Party convention.

That voters in Texas' largest county were forced to wait several hours to cast ballots on Tuesday was rightfully derided as unacceptable — and even as an example of voter suppression, given that some of longest lines were in minority neighborhoods.

But what happened in Harris County during its Super Tuesday primary election is more complicated than being just another chapter in Texas' long history of restrictive voting policies, though that history certain provides an important context.

That voters in Texas' largest county were forced to wait several hours to cast ballots on Tuesday was rightfully derided as unacceptable — and even as an example of voter suppression, given that some of longest lines were in minority neighborhoods.

But what happened in Harris County during its Super Tuesday primary election is more complicated than being just another chapter in Texas' long history of restrictive voting policies, though that history certain provides an important context.

HOUSTON — Joe Biden catapulted himself back into the Democratic presidential race with a big win in the South Carolina primary Saturday, setting up Super Tuesday's Texas primary as a critical showdown between the former vice president and Sen. Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist from Vermont and early front-runner.