RFK Jr.’s progressive VP pick Nicole Shanahan will doom Biden’s re-election
NY Post
As President Biden struggles to improve in the polls, Democrats are increasingly worried that third-party candidates will swing the election to former President Donald Trump.
As of Monday, per RealClearPolitics polling averages, Trump held a popular-vote lead of 1.7% in a hypothetical one-on-one rematch.
Trump’s advantage, however, rose to 2.3% in the current five-way race, which includes Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independents Cornel West and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy is by far the greatest potential spoiler, drawing an average of 9.9% of the overall vote.
A Harvard/Harris poll released last week found he commanded as much as 15% of the electorate. (Stein and West poll at no more than 2% each.)
Kennedy’s candidacy initially struck a chord with some independents and fringe Republicans drawn to his anti-vax message above his other policies, most of which are indistinguishable from the standard Democratic line.
