Former President Donald Trump isn’t sure if a third-party candidate will drive a wedge between him and victory in November, but Republicans adjacent to him are.
That’s a change to the general belief that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump called “extremely liberal,” has only served to siphon votes away from Democrats after a lifelong association with the party.
“They say he hurts Biden. I’m not sure that that’s true, and I think he probably hurts [us] both,” Trump said of Kennedy in a radio interview Monday night. “But he might hurt Biden a little bit more, you don’t know.”
A recent NBC News poll showed strong support for Kennedy among third-party candidates, and that support hurts Trump in a five-way race. More Trump voters favored Kennedy than President Joe Biden voters, and that shifts the vote to a 2-point Biden advantage.
In a head-to-head race, Trump still has a 2-point advantage over Biden.
Trump’s disadvantage in a five-way race may be in part due to a vigorous Democratic campaign to distance its voters from Kennedy, including a billboard in Scottsdale, Arizona, calling Kennedy a “spoiler for Trump.”
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