Will RFK Jr. stay in the race if he’s hurting Trump?
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It would be quite black fly in the chardonnay if the Republican advantage in the Electoral College was mitigated by a vanity candidate propped up by libertarian tech bros and anti-anti-Trump podcasters:
Today, Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t just risen in the polls; she has shifted that third-party dynamic. She now does better when you include other candidates.
And there’s increasing evidence that independent candidate Kennedy, in particular — a candidate once elevated by Donald Trump’s allies when he was challenging President Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries — is pulling significantly more votes from Trump than Harris.
Since the Democratic ticket turned over from Biden to Harris last month, a half-dozen quality polls have tested both a Trump-Harris matchup and a crowded race that included independent and third-party candidates. In all of them, Harris performed better in the crowded race.
She led by an average of 1.5 points in those head-to-head matchups, and 3.3 points in the crowded fields.
The question then becomes whether RFK actually wants Trump to win like Sacks, Elon, Greenwald, et al, do, or whether he’s just a narcissist who likes the attention and doesn’t really care if or how he affects the election. I certainly hope it’s the latter and Joe Rogan’s Monster helps to preserve democracy in the United States.