About this episode
On Monday at the Republican National Convention, Sen. J.D. Vance was announced as the V.P. pick and Sen. Tim Scott addressed the crowd. On Today's Show: Rev. Dr. William Barber , a Protestant minister, social activist, professor, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, president of Repairers of the Breach and the author of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy (Liveright, 2024), responds to their takes on poverty and argues that low-income Americans joining together represent "the largest potential swing vote in the country."