Rev. William Barber on Voter Suppression: Republicans Know They Can't Win If Everyone Casts a Ballot

During Wednesday's debate, Vice President Mike Pence refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if Biden wins the election. Instead, he referenced the Trump administration's legal efforts to restrict mail-in voting. Rev. William Barber says the Republican Party's voter suppression efforts ahead of the November election, aimed primarily at Black and Brown voters, amount to surgical racism with surgical precision." The Poor People's Campaign, of which Barber is co-chair, is leading a major voter mobilization effort to combat voter disenfranchisement. They know they cannot win if everybody votes. They are terribly afraid of poor and low-wealth Black and Brown people voting," he says.