Posted on 05/01/2024 2:10:44 PM PDT by thegagline
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needled President Biden Wednesday, offering a zany “no spoiler” agreement that whichever of the two candidates is least likely to defeat Donald Trump drops out of the race in October.
During a news conference in Brooklyn, the 70-year-old RFK Jr. proposed that he and Biden co-fund a 50-state poll of at least 30,000 likely voters to determine which candidate is the true “spoiler” who would ensure a victory for the 45th president by continuing to campaign.
“Ultimately, I think what we all want in this election is [for] Americans not to feel like they have to vote out of fear,” Kennedy told reporters. “That they feel like they can vote out of hope. And that is only going to happen if there’s a two-way race between me and President Trump or me and President Biden.”
*** The Democratic National Committee quickly pooh-poohed the proposal from Kennedy, claiming he was there as a Trump ally.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr is a spoiler- recruited by the MAGA GOP and propped up by Trump’s largest donor. “
*** But polls do show that Kennedy has significant support against Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
***[T]he Kennedy campaign cited a 50-state poll conducted by John Zogby Strategies that indicated the independent would win a two-way race against Biden and Trump.
In the survey, which polled over 26,000 people, Kennedy won 367 electoral votes to Biden’s 171. Against Trump, RFK Jr. barely obtained the magic number of 270 electoral votes.
In the widely expected Trump-Biden rematch, the 45th president knocked off his successor by 294 electoral votes to 244, according to Zogby.
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Sounds like a great plan!
They forgot to map out a three way.
The Dem establishment hates Kennedy almost as much as they hate Trump. Kennedy is now doing whatever he can to get attention because the media is ignoring him.
Utah Kennedy?
Yeah. They’ll post billboards with Romney’s face and the legend “Had enough of the GOP?” Kennedy will take it in a cakewalk
maybe Lieden will finally offer him SS protection
The lasy Democrat to win Utah was LBJ (watta shame!). No Dem has gutten > 40% since
FTA:
“’Robert F. Kennedy Jr is a spoiler- recruited by the MAGA GOP and propped up by Trump’s largest donor. His ‘Veep’-like performance today does nothing to dispel that notion- it only reinforces how deeply unserious his campaign is,’” DNC spokesperson Matt Corridoni told The Post in a statement.”
The there is what Trump said about RFK, Jr.
“RFK Jr. is a Democrat “Plant,” a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected. A Vote for Junior’ would essentially be a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that could swing either way, but would only swing against the Democrats if Republicans knew the true story about him. Junior’ is totally Anti-Gun, an Extreme Environmentalist who makes the Green New Scammers look Conservative, a Big Time Taxer and Open Border Advocate, and Anti-Military/Vet…”
Hmm. If I am RFK, Jr., I would be more upset with the DNC for calling me unserious than with Trump for simply exaggerating our policy differences, which is pretty much what all opponents do to each other.
So, what if Zogby’s poll is the most accurate poll out there now? Zogby rate better as a pollster than a lot of the traditional polls.
From looking at the internals, it seems as if a lot of the people who responded had low opinions of Trump and Biden and didn’t really know much about RFK, Jr., or aren’t sure what to make of him, so they might have answered that they would vote for RFK, Jr. out of a “better the devil you don’t know than the two devils you do know” mentality.
If this is the case, the advantage I would think would be more toward Trump as the things people learn about RKK, Jr. would tend to be the things moderates would be uncomfortable with.
In this sense, Trump is right. Kennedy is sort of a plant, though Kennedy planted himself.
I wonder if Trump made that comment recently because he knew about the Zogby poll and how strong it is for Kennedy in making his argument that he should be the D nominee, not Biden.
(Although I wonder what happens to RFK’s support among the people who really don’t know much about him when they find out he is one of those dread antivaxxers. Just how many leftist control freaks are left out there who believe in the all powerful Covid vaxx and will support Biden over RFK over this issue?)
I am looking forward to when Kennedy does events in Ohio. I will not vote for him, but I plan to go see him because I want to talk to his supporters to find out what makes them tick.
One thing is for sure, this Zogby poll makes it much more likely that the Biden Administration will drum up something to indict Kennedy with. I’m so hoping that happens because it will be obvious that we are now a banana republic.
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