Recapping RNC Day 1; The Latino Vote in 2020; Conservative Activists, Trump and Black Americans; US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

Coming up on today's show: 

• David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times and the author of The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House, 2019), discusses the first night of speeches at the RNC and moderates vs. radicals in both parties.
• From plans to build a wall, to calling Mexicans rapists, Trump has done a lot to anger Latino voters, and yet according to the PEW research center a third of Latino voters still support him. Maria Hinojosa, anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, talks about Trump's popularity among Latino voters, and after "Tio Bernie's" popularity, whether Biden can make up lost ground.
• Bruce Eberle, conservative activist and consultant and Vernon Robinson III, conservative activist, campaign director of the National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee in 2016, co-authors of the book Coming Home: How Black Americans Will Re-Elect Trump (Humanix Books, 2020), talk about the RNC and their June op-ed "Racism: Symbolism vs. Substance," arguing that President Trump has achieved more for Black Americans than any Democratic president.
• Joy Harjo, performer and writer, the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate, member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry ( W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), talks about her work as U.S. Poet Laureate and the new collection of the works of 160 indigenous poets.

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