Then democratic nominee, Joe Biden promised a nationwide mask mandate in his acceptance speech in August of 2020. Joe Biden said:
“We’ll have a national mandate to wear a mask — not as a burden, but to protect each other.”
“We’ll have a national mandate to wear a mask — not as a burden but as a patriotic duty to protect one another.”
–Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/E7gdqHskQK
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 21, 2020