There is conflicting polling regarding whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential candidacy helps or harms each of the majority party contenders. The reality of the third-party/RFK effect may not be fully understood until after the general election ballots are counted and analyzed. Still, Kennedy has plans not to wait that long.
On Wednesday, at a campaign event in New York, Kennedy announced the “no spoiler pledge,” proposing Democrat President Joe Biden should agree to discontinue his candidacy, should polls show that the 81-year-old incumbent is the real “spoiler” in the race, not the Independent Kennedy.
The proposed pact would require a 50-state poll to be conducted in mid-October, jointly funded by the Kennedy and Biden campaigns. The poll must survey more than 30,000 voters and whoever is disfavored in a match-up against the presumed GOP candidate, former President Donald…
