He said if “a big tent movement” could be created “that speaks with one voice, does the necessary research to know exactly what messages need to be conveyed in a consistent way, then we might just have a chance to shift the dial in the next few months. That is what is needed and time is tremendously short.” (The Guardian.)
Is a noun phrase "a big tent movement” that speaks with one voice, does the necessary research to know exactly what messages need to be conveyed in a consistent way an antecedent ofThat in That is what is needed in the passage above?
Is what is needed a relative clause adjectivally complementing That inThat is what is needed?
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