One way history shows Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s popularity spells doom for President Joe Biden.
For his part, Trump was happy to oblige, agreeing to Biden’s demand that their battle of wits be a “head-to-head comparison of the two candidates with a chance of winning the election.”
It doesn’t take massive victories for rogue candidates to have outsize effects on presidential contests. In three contests in particular, it’s clear that when a third-party candidate received as little as 3% of the vote, he managed to make the contest a referendum on the incumbent and his party to a greater degree than any reelection contest already is. Kennedy didn’t make it as far into the primary contest as Theodore Roosevelt. In 1912, Roosevelt challenged his one-time protege William H.
Discontent with the prolonged conflict in Vietnam, the political assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and a chaotic Democratic National Convention in Chicago paved the way for Richard Nixon to make his comeback from political loser to world leader. However, Nixon’s comfortable lead shrunk on Election Day. The reliably Democratic South wasn’t ready to line up behind him, and six states couldn’t stomach giving the Kennedy-Johnson-Humphrey line of succession another four years.
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