Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered a “spoiler-free” pledge with President Joe Biden at a campaign event in New York on Wednesday, citing his feud with former President Donald Trump. did.
The pledge he described is that Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Biden will jointly fund a poll of more than 30,000 people in 50 states in mid-October, and will run a two-person race with Mr. Trump in each state. The idea is to have them fight and reach an agreement that the one with the weakest performance will be victorious. If you oppose him, he will withdraw from the presidential race.
Kennedy said Biden was the “spoiler” in the race after presenting the results of a campaign-commissioned poll that showed a likely win scenario for both Biden and Trump in separate head-to-head contests. He claimed that it was not him.
Democrats quickly rejected that argument Wednesday. Matt Corridoni, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, called Kennedy a spoiler candidate in a statement, citing the HBO comedy, saying, “Performances like today’s VEEP do nothing to dispel that notion, but rather his “It just highlights how dishonest the election campaign is.”
Initially running as a Democrat following the Kennedy dynasty, the presidential candidate switched parties and ran as an independent. In March, RFK announced Nicole Shanahan, a California-based lawyer and entrepreneur, as his running mate for the long-term White House bid.
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According to a national poll released April 18, RFK appears to be driving voters 18-34 and 35-49 away from Trump. A poll from Florida Atlantic University and Main Street Research showed President Joe Biden leading Trump by just one point. But when RFK was added to the test vote, Biden’s lead over Trump widened to 5 points.
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About a week after the poll was released, President Trump attacked RFK in a series of posts on his Truth Social account, calling him a Democratic “plant.”
“A vote for Junior is essentially a wasted protest vote that could swing either way, but only against Democrats if Republicans knew the truth about Junior,” Trump wrote in the post. It will swing,” he wrote.
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RFK’s campaign has promised to have “Bobby” on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia by the Nov. 5 general election, but it is unlikely to do so without support from Democrats or Republicans. It’s not easy.
The campaign says it has collected enough signatures to gain access to the ballot in New Hampshire, Nevada, Hawaii, North Carolina, Idaho, Nebraska and Iowa. The Kennedy-Shanahan ticket is officially on the ballot in Utah and Michigan.
During Wednesday’s event, RFK claimed that his campaign also had already received enough signatures to gain ballot access in New York, but was continuing to collect signatures.
David Jackson and The Palm Beach Post contributed to this report.
