By late afternoon, Fernandez is dozing in his chair, mouth agape, hands clasped in his lap.

In that small snapshot, about 90 minutes or so, in a busy waiting room filled with patients listening out for their names to be called, in wheelchairs, in pain, dozing off.

But it wasn’t until closing statements, when many voters may have been dozing off, that she discussed her history as a prosecutor in California.

Nearby, a younger black man seemed to be dozing.

“When I tried to complain, I found the police officers dozing off with their guns in hand.”