Not even Joe Biden understands his position on a national mask mandate

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When it comes to supporting a national mask mandate, Democratic nominee Joe Biden is all over the place.

The federal government cannot order people to wear masks, Biden said this week. That would likely be unconstitutional. But it was Biden who proposed the idea of “a mask mandate nationwide” in mid-August. He even said in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention that a mask mandate would be part of his national strategy to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

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