person competing to be mp of clacton. let s speak to politics professor tim bale, from queen mary university he s in east sussex. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. just start by telling us what you think of this move and whether it could potentially split the conservative vote there. i it could potentially split the conservative vote there. i think it could. a polling conservative vote there. i think it could. a polling company - conservative vote there. i think it could. a polling company did - conservative vote there. i think it could. a polling company did a i conservative vote there. i think it i could. a polling company did a poll backin could. a polling company did a poll back injanuary in clacton, a constituency pole, and these are quite unusual it showed without nigel farage, reform uk would finish quite a poor second behind the conservatives. however, indeed possibly even third. but with nigel farage standing, they stand a good chance of actually winning that seat. so
i mean, you can t like i don t know if trump is falling asleep or if he s just resting his eyes, but it is not boring, it is riveting. you can watch prosecuting donald trump: witness to history tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc and streaming on peacock as well. two meanwhile, new polling telling former president trump scrotal conviction is most americans agree with this verdict, but their opinions on the race have not changed. an nbc news paul found 50% of americans support the guilty verdict, while 27% say it was not correct. however, 23% said they do not know. 49% of respondents said trump should end his campaign completely, including 16% of republicans, but those numbers are nearly unchanged from a poll back in april. joining us now, jonathan allen, nbc news senior national politics reporter, jonathan,
concern about our children, concerned about the environment, about representation, and i think a lot of things are going to resonate with audiences. i grew up in canada, where a long time ago, we learned that indigenous people would prefer to be referred to by their tribe, in many cases. one thing that comes up in this special s identity and what language non native people should use to refer to americas indigenous people. you specifically spoke about that. what is your take? we actually did a poll back in 2020, where we surveyed nearly 6000 native americans in 50 states and asked that very same question. in the top answer was people want to be identified by their tribe. so i am a citizen of the pony nation of oklahoma. i think when we talk about native americans overall, saying native americans or indigenous peoples is the most appropriate way, but i think it is so important for folks to know that native americans are not a monolith. there are 576 plus nations in this country. i
against biases and racism, your organization eliminated is to preventing the erasure of native people. and that might be an extreme term, but actually, some of the things that you are working on our real sub cultural erasures of lives. yeah, we did a poll back in 2017 in which we found that 78% of americans know little to nothing about native peoples. and 72% rarely or never encounter any information about native peoples. we dug deeper to look at some of the biggest systems of erasure in our entertainment in, media which our representation is less than 0.4%. but even then, nearly 90% of schools in the country don t teach about native americans passed 1900. so this is real erasure depending on where you re living in united states, some people are necessarily certain about whether or not native americans still exist. that is why, for example, tonight, the special that is airing here on msnbc is so important to remind native americans that not only are
donald trump is a big deal, if that is in fact what is happening. and from the sort of bread crumbs that we have gotten in recent weeks, from the fake electors, who now have immunity deals with prosecutors and are cooperating, the lawyers that have been implicated just the movement and momentum that we are seeing what is your expectation here? and how potentially damning is it that you have these cooperating witnesses? so, it s reading tea leaves, as you say. but i do think that reasonable prosecutors would say that, in light of the background of fani willis being an expert in rico and racketeering prosecutions, and because we ve seen a wide net cast a lot of people forget, this has been going on for two years. yeah. give us occasion has been having two years to be able to grow. it s only lately that you ve been seeing an investigation, and yet a poll back, the pullback being the immunity deals that were offered with eight of the 16 fake electors that participated in that d