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Terrified Parents, New Age Health Nuts, MAGA Exiles. Meet the R.F.K. Jr. Faithful.

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Opinion | Terrified Parents, New Age Health Nuts, MAGA Exiles. Meet the R.F.K. Jr. Faithful.

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Some polls back up this analysis. A Quinnipiac survey shows Kennedy getting 13 percent of the vote; he has support from 9 percent of Democrats, 8 percent of Republicans and 20 percent of independents. The poll shows Biden leading Trump by three points in a head-to-head matchup but Trump ahead by one point when third-party candidates are included. Though both numbers are within the poll’s margin of error, they suggest that Trump could benefit if the election isn’t seen as a binary choice.
However, other polls show Kennedy pulling more voters from Trump, and the truth is no one knows how the election will ultimately shake out. “The public polling, if you dig into it, can be really head-swiveling,” said Smith. “It’s very hard to gauge the impact, but it does seem like he pulls from both, and right now — emphasis on ‘right now’ — slightly more from Biden.”
Kennedy certainly has no qualms about spoiling the election for Trump. On CNN on Monday, he argued that Biden poses a “much worse” threat to democracy than Trump because of the Biden administration’s attempts to get social media companies to remove vaccine misinformation, much of it spread by Kennedy
I really don't see how a pro-Israel, against any ceasefire agreement, candidate that also believes the free market will fix climate change stands to gain more support from former Biden voters than former Trump voters.
- Because people are morons and I guarantee that there's a non-zero number of Democrat voters who will think "Oh, he's running again? I heard he was a very good president but I thought he was assassinated. I must have been wrong."
  A lot of voters are woefully uninformed and only vote based on loose name recognition and gut feeling.
  
  According to the post you responded to, it's 9 percent of Democrats. That's a pretty big number.
Man, you know you’re running a great campaign when you get all the Maga rejects are too crazy for the Republicans.
- As long as he siphons votes from Trump, I'm ok
He’s fucking nuts.
A lying liar who deliberately misrepresented data to sell fear about vaccines is attracting stupid and gullible people to his platform. Ftfy.
They'll just fizzle out and go back to unengaged before you know it. This is really the best case scenario for the death of the cult. The best thing we can do is not draw attention to them and let them go quietly.
- I wouldn't call them "faithful." Not the kind that go to a rally or something.
- As a former Massachusettsan can I ask that you instead write in Mickey Mouse? Obviously it's better to vote for a main part candidate due to our batshit insane political system but please at least don't support this fucking mook.
  
  Double check your state laws. In some cases writing someone in will invalidate your whole ballot.

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