Poll shows how RFK Jr.'s appeal to anti-vaccine right could hurt Trump
The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dynamic in the 2024 election is shifting. Multiple recent high-quality national polls have shown the independent candidate suddenly pulling support about evenly from President Biden and former president Donald Trump — and even taking more from Trump’s side of the ledger — despite long-standing Democratic concerns about Kennedy playing spoiler for Biden.
A new poll gets at why the Kennedy effect might shift in Biden’s favor.
I’ve been arguing in this space for a while that Kennedy is more of a wild card than people might realize, by virtue of his much-better image with Republican-leaning voters and voters’ lack of familiarity with him (beyond his golden name).
What happens with his double-digit support when increasingly anti-vaccine Republicans — and even more anti-vaccine MAGA Republicans — learn that Kennedy is perhaps the nation’s leading vaccine skeptic, I asked? Running against Trump, the guy who presided over Operation Warp Speed and has repeatedly praised the coronavirus vaccines?
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