presidency in 5 07. new york city was the hat tip to moynahan then went on a listening tour and hit every locality you could find in new york state. no big rallies, no gymnasiums but literally house to house. in many ways trying to recreate formats that she s comfortable in. in talking to people close to secretary clinton, while many people advised would like to see her do the big speech make this about the first woman presidency, it s the candidate herself who said no i want to do this small and have this roll out as slow as you can have a ramp up and she needs to get her campaign sea legs. there s a new poll three swing states showing that clinton is under water on whether or not she is honest and trust worthy. so how concerning is that as you look at this quinn pea ak poll?
what is expected to be a $2.5 billion effort. that is more money raised than president obama and governor romney in 2012 combined. joining me now is nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press chuck todd. it s always good to see you. especially on big game days like today. let s first talk about go slow, go small. as a strategy. obviously there are potential rewards. there are also potential risks. first reed points this out, the risk is where s the message. i wonder how much of a concern that is at this point? look this is a very good process idea when you think about the candidate you re dealing with. hillary clinton. this has been made clear to me by people around her. this is how she wants to go slow, get the campaign up and running, frankly get her own campaign sea legs. and to essentially recreate what she believes was her most successful political campaign which was her first one, the one
may not be official candidates by may, so we decided to put it off until we are certain we have the right folks up there on the stage. four years ago, we had the first debate. it was in late april, but at that time all those candidates, john, were in the race three months by the time april came along. frankly, these candidates behind the scenes are saying they are glad we changed it because they want time to get campaign sea legs, that the way this was going, they were going to announce and then feel pressure to do this debate, basically at the godfather s presidential library, can t say no to nancy reagan, so they were going to have to do it, and they weren t comfortable a we don t have a campaign yet. i thought it was going to force candidates to make decisions. there were three of them. they are all now going to have to move. it is fascinating, but you know that nobody wants to get in earlier than they have to get in. that s just the truth.
stage. four years ago, we had the first debate. it was in late april, but at that time all those candidates, john, were in the race three months by the time april came along. frankly, these candidates behind the scenes are saying they are glad we changed it because they want time to get campaign sea legs, that the way this was going, they were going to announce and then feel pressure to do this debate, basically at the godfather s presidential library, can t say no to nancy reagan, so they were going to have to do it, and they weren t comfortable a we don t have a campaign yet. i thought it was going to force candidates to make decisions. there were three of them. they are all now going to have to move. it is fascinating, but you know that nobody wants to get in earlier than they have to get in. that s just the truth. normally the thing that makes them get in early is the presence of a frontrunner. in 2008, hillary clinton and john mccain. if you were barack obama, john