Commentators engaging leaders that i want to quickly stay themes of our panel and introduce a panelist and open it up for conversation. Of course this evening our event is entitled the New Jerusalem black life life the church in the struggle for democracy. Our hosts have given us the charge of taking on the theme of the fact that religious belief religious institutions and religious people came to be seen as essential to social freedom. This remains the central paradox in africanamerican life and political history. Our discussion will examine the overlapping challenges of creating a basis for collective activism building independent black institutions determining the place of men women politics and religion in leadership. Now to our panelists who all have long is such that they could take up the entire night so i will list the titles of their books and move into the conversation. First to my most immediate right and moving further along the panel. First is anthea butler, the author of
She needs to contrast herself with donald trump and there is a lot of material there when it comes to issues and when it comes to style and when it comes to policy. Millions and millions of voters will be watching tonight. Lets get to dana bash. Shes getting new information now on what we can expect from Hillary Clinton and her speech tonight, dana . What they say inside the Clinton Campaign is what they believe donald trump did in his speech a week ago is to try to unify the party and not try to appeal beyond the republican base, and what they say is that Hillary Clinton will try to do the opposite. Get beyond the people in this hall, get beyond the people who are sort of Traditional Democratic voters and try to appeal to independents, try to appeal to republicans who might not be comfortable with donald trump, but to jakes point, they understand inside the Clinton Campaign, even though they dont admit it publicly that her biggest achilles heel is the trust issue, the honesty issue an
Kristen . Were just above the new york delegation. Theyre obviously going to be watching secretary clintons speech very closely, the former senator from new york. One of her top Campaign Officials told me just moments ago, she is feeling confident. Shes been working on this speech for weeks. Her message tonight is going to be stronger together. Weve heard her say that on the campaign trail. Shell lay out policy positions in terms of what that means. Shell also draw on some of the themes from her 1996 book, it takes a village. Shell be drawing also a stark contrast with donald trump. The vision that he laid out for the country this week, she is going to lay out a more optimistic version, much like we heard from president obama last night. Now, the challenge for her, shes got to try to turn around some of the negativity numbers. She has some of the highest unfavorable ratings in history. So shes got to get personal and she is going to do that, im told. And the broader political strategy
Nbc news wall street journal poll of the 2016 race. Clinton is holding a four point lead over trump with 44 of likely voters. While frutrump gets 40 . Put gary johnson and jill stein, clintons advantage expands. Lets bring in mark murray. All right, mark, explain these poll numbers tous. Its a four point race, but what does that mean really . Like what is going on internally in these polls . Yeah, i think there is like a tale of two things. So on the worone hand, donald tp has been able to cut clintons lead nearly by half in our latest poll. The last poll in mid october of course when the access Hollywood Tapes and video of donald trump surfaced. An back in mid october, Hillary Clinton had an 11 point lead in the four way contest. And a ten point lead in the two way. Well, now it is a four point lead in the four way and five point lead in the two way. So essentially half. However, when you look inside the poll about, the race is so stable. Hillary clinton enjoys a 15 point lead among w
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