Oh, wait, it looks like RFK Jr. is taking more away from Trump than Biden!
In a three-way contest, RFK Jr. wins the support of 16 percent of the registered voters surveyed.
www.nationalreview.com
In the months leading up to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement that he would drop his Democratic presidential campaign and instead mount an independent bid for the White House, the
polling suggested that Kennedy’s candidacy appealed more to Republicans. Indeed, Kennedy had been embraced by
MAGA-flavored media venues not just because his candidacy represented an explicit critique of Joe Biden’s presidency but because he articulated a level of paranoid hostility toward established wisdom and polite convention that even Donald Trump could not achieve. Now, according to the latest
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, the suspicion that Kennedy might draw more from Trump’s pool of voters than Biden’s has some substantiating evidence.
In a head-to-head matchup, that poll found that Biden edges out Trump by just three points at 49 to 46 percent. But in a three-way contest, RFK Jr. wins the support of 16 percent of the registered voters surveyed. Biden loses five points in that hypothetical situation, but his 44 percent of the vote dramatically surpasses Donald Trump’s meager 37 percent.