Pelosi, Democrats press case for mail-in voting amid Trump attacks

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday pressed the Democrats’ case for expanding vote-by-mail across the country, escalating a fight with President Trump over how elections should be conducted in the year of the coronavirus.The fight pits the president – who is warning, without evidence, of a vast Democratic conspiracy to scuttle his reelection bid with fraudulent mail-in ballots – against Democrats arguing for the importance of…