Joe Biden’s mask ‘mandate’ wouldn’t work and isn’t needed

Published August 21, 2020 7:14pm ET



Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said during his acceptance speech what he has said before: “We’ll have a national mandate to wear a mask.”

He says that not because it makes any real sense as a policy but because he knows the national media love hearing it.

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