RFK Jr. continues to poll shockingly well for a third-party candidate. He’s in the high single digits or low double digits.
Those are really good numbers for a third-party candidate at this point in time.
Here’s the question: Who is he pulling from: Trump or Biden?
The assumption was that he was pulling from both in equal measure, but now, he has picked a clearly leftist vice presidential candidate: Nicole Shanahan.
That means RFK Jr. is going to be running directly into the Biden campaign apparatus. He’s going to be drawing Democratic votes to himself. That is a genuine threat to Biden. There are a lot of people who are looking at Biden and saying, “I don’t like what I’m seeing here. Maybe RFK Jr. is the moderate. Maybe he’s the ‘not-Biden’ vote.”
The Washington Post published a piece covering Shanahan and Kennedy’s announcement, writing:
In making the announcement,…
