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Fox News nationalist analogous Bryan Llenas has nan latest connected nan 3rd statement candidate's expanding momentum up of nan 2024 predetermination connected 'The Faulkner Focus.'
Independent statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has revealed what he says is his way to nan White House arsenic he faces accrued unit from nan Biden and Trump campaigns targeting what immoderate person described arsenic his "spoiler" candidacy.
"All we request to do is get to 33% to triumph nan election," Kennedy told Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo past week on his show "World Over," which appears connected EWTN Global Catholic Network.
"You don't request 50%. It's a three-way title — and it's really a five-way race," he added, referencing independent campaigner Dr. Cornel West and Green Party campaigner Dr. Jill Stein.
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Kennedy told Arroyo he was already adjacent to that 33% "in a bunch of states," appearing to mention soul polling, and based on he has an advantage complete President Biden and erstwhile President Donald Trump erstwhile it came to young voters.
According to a number of caller nationalist polls, Kennedy is polling amended than immoderate third-party campaigner has since Texas businessman Ross Perot's back-to-back White House runs successful nan 1990s, and is doing peculiarly good pinch voters nether nan property of 35. He is, however, still trailing Trump and Biden successful nan demographic.
A Quinnipiac poll released past week recovered Kennedy pinch 16% support overall, pinch Trump and Biden each astatine 37%. He pulled important support from Trump and Biden pinch voters aged 18-34, garnering 19% support, but still trailed nan erstwhile president (34%) and president (30%).
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Independent statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sits down pinch Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo connected EWTN's "World View." (Screenshot/EWTN)
The same canvass taken past fall showed Kennedy starring Trump and Biden pinch voters aged 18-34, getting 39% to their 27% and 32% respectively. However, that canvass did not see West and Stein.
One erstwhile Bernie Sanders pollster, Ben Tulchin, precocious sounded nan siren complete Kennedy pulling truthful overmuch young support from Biden. Last week, he told The New York Times he was worried astir Biden's chances of winning re-election because of Kennedy's entreaty to nan demographic, arsenic good arsenic Latino voters.
"Young voters and Latinos respond really good to a hard-edge economical populist connection — and that is not Biden’s message," Tulchin said. "They’re dissatisfied astir nan governmental and economical position quo. And I spot successful that mind-set nan imaginable opening to support a third-party candidate," he said.
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Former President Donald Trump, independent statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and President Biden. (Getty Images)
To forestall that from happening, nan Democratic National Committee launched an effort to soundlessness nan threat to Biden's re-election from third-party candidates, namely Kennedy, successful nan shape of a squad that is expected to actively combat them pinch ineligible challenges and guidance research.
Likewise, Trump precocious railed against Kennedy arsenic a "wasted protestation vote" successful a station connected Truth Social, and his run has launched a website targeting nan second arsenic "radical f-----g Kennedy," describing him arsenic a "friend of left-wing extremists."
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Additionally, Biden appeared alongside six members of Kennedy's family arsenic they endorsed him complete their own, a clear snub successful conjunction pinch nan DNC's efforts.
Both sides person besides accused Kennedy of being a "plant" successful bid to thief boost nan different side, thing he vehemently denies.
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Brandon Gillespie is an subordinate editor astatine Fox News. Follow him connected X astatine @BGillespieAL.
