Before the speech, Biden’s campaign also released a racial-justice policy plan containing further details on the proposal. After toning down his public statements about the coronavirus last week, President Trump appears to be back to his old ways. Barr has repeatedly echoed Trump’s unfounded assertion that mail-in voting could lead to widespread voter fraud, and in his testimony he doubled down on the claim. “If you have wholesale mail-in voting, it increases the risk of fraud.”There’s no factual basis for this argument, as indicated by the experiences of states that have expanded access to voting by mail amid the pandemic. Polling shows that a vast majority of the country supports universal access to mail-in voting.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2020 10:52 UTC