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RFK Jr.’s Threat to Trump

November’s election may be decided by whose definition of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voters find most persuasive.

No one really knows which of his rivals Mr. Kennedy’s candidacy will hurt more. Mr. Biden sees Mr. Kennedy as possibly reprising the role played by the Green Party’s Jill Stein in 2016. Her vote totals were slim—in Pennsylvania she received 0.82%, in Michigan 1.07%, in Wisconsin 1.04%—but had her votes gone instead to Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump wouldn’t have been president.

With Mr. Kennedy polling today in the low double digits, Mr. Biden is taking no chances. He has gathered endorsements from almost the entire Kennedy family and even set up a war room to track the RFK campaign and make it harder for him to get on state ballots. Team Biden is trying to portray Mr. Kennedy as a creature of MAGA, citing his antivax stands and his financial support from Trump donor Timothy Mellon.

Mr. Trump is smart to hammer Mr. Kennedy on the issues and cast him as further to the left than Mr. Biden. For one thing, it clarifies things for Republican and independent voters who might buy the nonsense that Mr. Kennedy is conservative. For another, the more vehement Mr. Trump’s attacks on Mr. Kennedy are, the more the former president increases RFK Jr.’s attractiveness to Democrats already disenchanted with the president.

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 @SolemnG3rrym4nderRepublicanfrom Florida commented…2wks2W

I disagree. This is not 1992 when Perot definitely took votes from Bush. RFK Jr. is very, very liberal and his position on gun control and the environment (although he has tacked right on that recently) will not go over well with R voters IMO.

 @CrushedYearlyPeace and Freedom from New Jersey commented…2wks2W

1992 was still a time when most Americans voted based on issues. No longer. Most Americans today vote based on tribal identification. Can you think of any other possible reason to vote for Biden?

 @TwoPartyBertLibertarian from Missouri commented…2wks2W

If RFK Junior is so unimportant to the outcome of the election, why have the Democrats pulled so many strings to keep him off Blue state ballots?

 @MackerelDeanWomen’s Equality from Oregon agreed…2wks2W

I am glad to see Kennedy run as a third party candidate. It's a shame Democrat voters were not given a choice when he was forced from the party by the DNC rigging of the primary.

 @Independ3ntBobcatForward from West Virginia commented…2wks2W

I don’t like Trump. I don’t like Biden more.

I wont be wasting my vote on RFK.

 @RightW1ngCatRepublicanfrom Tennessee commented…2wks2W

I don't like Trump much either but I love this country. I find nothing to like about Biden but he's an empty sock puppet so my feelings stem from not liking his handlers.

So loving this country, I will vote for Trump. Anything else is to invite our enemies abroad and here to inflict further wounds on this country.

 @IamSirius32Green  from Ohio commented…2wks2W

I hate Trump. I don't really like Biden but I like him more than the other too. RFK is crazy. He needs to learn from his uncle. So I'm voting Biden or Stein.

 @KnowledgeLouieConstitution from South Carolina commented…2wks2W

Kennedy doesn’t have a conservative bone in his body. His original hope was to be a substitute for Biden, but then, since he was criticizing Biden, he decided to try to appeal to republicans.

 @Activi5tClaraDemocrat from Illinois commented…2wks2W

RFK Jr is quite a nut job when you look at his past beliefs, none of which he’s repudiated. He’s a leftist, first last and always.

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