Democrats fear RFK Jr. threat
Fox Information nationwide correspondent Bryan Llenas has the newest on the third social gathering candidate’s rising momentum forward of the 2024 election on ‘The Faulkner Focus.’
Unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has revealed what he says is his path to the White Home as he faces elevated stress from the Biden and Trump campaigns focusing on what some have described as his “spoiler” candidacy.
“All we need to do is get to 33% to win the election,” Kennedy advised Fox Information contributor Raymond Arroyo final week on his show “World Over,” which seems on EWTN World Catholic Community.
“You don’t need 50%. It’s a three-way race — and it’s really a five-way race,” he added, referencing unbiased candidate Dr. Cornel West and Inexperienced Celebration candidate Dr. Jill Stein.
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Kennedy advised Arroyo he was already near that 33% “in a bunch of states,” showing to quote inner polling, and argued he has a bonus over President Biden and former President Donald Trump when it got here to younger voters.
In accordance with a lot of latest public polls, Kennedy is polling higher than any third-party candidate has since Texas businessman Ross Perot’s back-to-back White Home runs within the Nineties, and is doing notably properly with voters underneath the age of 35. He’s, nonetheless, nonetheless trailing Trump and Biden within the demographic.
A Quinnipiac poll launched final week discovered Kennedy with 16% help total, with Trump and Biden every at 37%. He pulled important help from Trump and Biden with voters aged 18-34, garnering 19% help, however nonetheless trailed the previous president (34%) and president (30%).
Unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sits down with Fox Information contributor Raymond Arroyo on EWTN’s “World View.” (Screenshot/EWTN)
The same poll taken last fall confirmed Kennedy main Trump and Biden with voters aged 18-34, getting 39% to their 27% and 32% respectively. Nonetheless, that ballot didn’t embrace West and Stein.
One former Bernie Sanders pollster, Ben Tulchin, just lately sounded the alarm over Kennedy pulling a lot younger help from Biden. Final week, he advised The New York Occasions he was nervous about Biden’s possibilities of profitable re-election due to Kennedy’s enchantment to the demographic, in addition to Latino voters.
“Young voters and Latinos respond really well to a hard-edge economic populist message — and that is not Biden’s message,” Tulchin mentioned. “They’re dissatisfied about the political and economic status quo. And I see in that mind-set the potential opening to support a third-party candidate,” he mentioned.
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Former President Donald Trump, unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and President Biden. (Getty Photographs)
To forestall that from occurring, the Democratic National Committee launched an effort to silence the menace to Biden’s re-election from third-party candidates, specifically Kennedy, within the type of a staff that’s anticipated to actively fight them with authorized challenges and opposition analysis.
Likewise, Trump just lately railed in opposition to Kennedy as a “wasted protest vote” in a submit on Fact Social, and his marketing campaign has launched a web site focusing on the latter as “radical f—–g Kennedy,” describing him as a “friend of left-wing extremists.”
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Moreover, Biden appeared alongside six members of Kennedy’s household as they endorsed him over their very own, a transparent snub along side the DNC’s efforts.
Each side have additionally accused Kennedy of being a “plant” with the intention to assist increase the opposite facet, one thing he vehemently denies.
