Pompeo: Justice Department will determine when elections are held

By Joseph Simonson

Published July 30, 2020 4:17pm ET

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Pompeo: Justice Department will determine when elections are held — Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Don Lemon. | (AP Images)

Mike Pompeo erroneously asserted that the Department of Justice will decide whether the presidential election is held on Nov. 3.

At the beginning of the Senate hearing on the State Department’s funding requests for next year, the secretary of state was asked to address President Trump’s Thursday tweet suggesting that the presidential election should be moved because of voter fraud related to the enormous amount of mail-in votes that will be issued because of concerns surrounding the coronavirus.

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