The impact of independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
suspending his presidential campaign Friday and endorsing Donald Trump remains to be seen.
It’s more likely to be a boon to Trump than to Vice President Kamala Harris, given Kennedy was drawing significantly more votes from the right and from would-be Trump supporters. But Kennedy’s share of the vote was at about 5 percent and falling.
Kennedy’s exit leaves three significant names below Trump and Harris on at least some state ballots: Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver and independent Cornel West.
All three come from left-leaning backgrounds. Stein and West are both generally further to the political left than Harris. Oliver’s potential appeal is harder to define, as it often is with Libertarians. But he’s a former Democrat and left-leaning Libertarian who defeated a more right-wing candidate at May’s Libertarian National Convention.
But to the extent these candidates get on the ballot, Stein and West especially, very small numbers could matter.
The pivotal states in the last two presidential elections, after all, were decided by less than a point — 0.7 percent in Pennsylvania in 2016, and 0.6 percent in Wisconsin in 2020.
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I have the same amount of contempt, disdain and disgust for anyone who votes for RFK, Jr. or Stein as I do for those who vote for Trump.
The exact same amount.
Which is the absolute maximum.
@PollsterAlexaGreen2yrs2Y
Who cares what you think, not everybody is a Democrat, and frankly American citizens have a right to vote however you want, even if it spoils your plans. Someone truly committed to democratic principles would try to convince those voters to vote for them if they are so afraid. Comments like this make Democrats look like the exact kind of partisan fanatics that MAGA has proven itself to be.
@Debat3LapwingDemocrat2yrs2Y
Nobody is asking everyone to be a Democrat. Just vote for our country's sake and all its citizens.
You know. Good old fashioned patriotism. A dictator on day one is the end of voting for all of us.
@9RSH5PF2yrs2Y
I hope you are left sobbing helplessly like a sissified crybaby when Trump takes back this country in November.
Deleted10mos10MO
Thankfully, We Need More Stronger Alternative, Third Party, Minor Candidates and Whatever Outside of two Scumbag Parties & More Moderate Candidates To American Politics!
@MajorityCoyoteDemocrat2yrs2Y
Stein will draw from Harris, some amount, not much, but it could matter somewhere...hopefully many stay home. Harris hopefully keeps building support so that this does not matter, but we do not know that yet.Vote Blue! Hope is not a plan!
@B5YP5YPLibertarian10mos10MO
what is this propaganda bs I’m not no democrat 🤣 just because I answered that i wanted autonomy and I am against abortion because of rapists and predators? It makes me a feminist? Y’all gotta work on your site. Also I’m 26 percent fascist too lol. Clowns
@ExcitedLardDemocrat2yrs2Y
Thanks to Ralph Nader, former President Al Gore doesn’t exist, but the thousands of dead and wounded Iraq war soldiers do.
Jill Stein, Putinist
-and-
Cornell West, romanticist
BOTH need to get out of the race. This campaign is too important for their self-indulgent fantasyland nonsense.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
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