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independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday as a “Radical Left Lunatic” who is “far more LIBERAL than anyone running as a Democrat ,” as both candidates hope to align Kennedy with the other ahead of the November elections.
on his social media platform Truth Social early Sunday, Trump said he watched Kennedy Jr. on “Real Time With Bill Maher” and found Kennedy “far more LIBERAL than Maher” and other Democratic candidates, but has “no hope” because the Democrats “threw him out of the Party” for taking primary votes from Biden.on Truth Social he is a “plant” from the left to help Biden get re-elected, adding a vote for Kennedy Jr. would be “a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that could swing either way.”Kennedy will take votes from their party’s candidate in a race so closely contested that any voter loss could sway the election outcome.than Biden, with 15% of voters who would initially cast their ballots for Trump in a two-way race would switch to Kennedy Jr. in a five-way race, while only 7% of Biden voters would switch—marking a switch from past months in whichThe CNN poll, conducted by SSRS, has Trump maintaining an edge over Biden in a head-to-head race, 49% to 43%.he would “even take Biden over Junior’ , because our Country would last a year or two longer prior to collapse - But it would be dead either way.”, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday to defend himself, saying “Trump's rant against me is a barely coherent barrage of wild and inaccurate claims that should best be resolved in the American tradition of presidential debate.” He challenged Trump to “defend his record to me mano-a-mano by respectful, congenial debate” rather than “lobbing poisonous bombs from the safety of his bunker.” Kennedy also criticized Trump’s time in office, saying he “betrayed the hopes” of his followers by not ending the Ukraine war, running up debt and “torpedo the Constitution.”Green Party candidate Jill Stein for Hillary Clinton’s loss to Trump in 2016. Though Stein didn’t get any, she received enough support in key battleground states like Florida and Michigan that could have meant the margin of victory for Clinton, who thenNovember’s presidential election is shaping up to be a tight race, with polls showing Trump leading Biden by 0.7 percentage points, according to RealClearPolitics’. The narrow lead is seemingly increasing concern among political advisers on both sides that support for third-party candidates could take a victory from either Trump or Biden. Kennedy has so far only secured a spot on the ballot in a select number of. While Biden and Democrats initially seemed more concerned about Kennedy taking support from their side, Trump’s recent attacks against Kennedy mark a shift in the Republican mindset, potentially indicating their concern is growing. Beyond the CNN poll, a survey released last week from Quinnipiac University found Kennedy’s supporters were more likely to support Trump in a two-way race, and a poll from
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