Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, has a higher favorability rating than many of the other 2024 pre…
Within his own party, 60% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters say they back Biden for the top of next year’s Democratic ticket, 20% favor activist and lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and 8% back author Marianne Williamson. Another 8% say they would support an unnamed “someone else.”
Biden’s primary supporters are largely locked in: 58% say they would definitely support him and 42% say that they could change their minds. In contrast, those backing other candidates are far from committed, with just 19% in that group saying they definitely will support their first-choice candidate and 81% saying that they could change their minds.
The poll suggests that Biden would likely win the support of the vast majority of Democratic-aligned voters in 2024. Just 14% in that group say they wouldn’t back him in the primary. And only 7% say they definitely would not support him in November 2024 should he win the party’s nod.
It looks like RFK Jr would draw votes away from republican candidates in a general election. The issue, though, is he can’t make it past the primaries. He has the same issue as DeSantis, you can’t win a primary without the support of trump, and you can’t win the general with it.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/cnn-poll-democrats-2024/index.html
It looks like RFK Jr would draw votes away from republican candidates in a general election. The issue, though, is he can’t make it past the primaries. He has the same issue as DeSantis, you can’t win a primary without the support of trump, and you can’t win the general with it.
It is quite the conundrum. I hope the court cases don’t distract Trump from his attacks on DeSantis.