The third-party candidate is more likely to move the needle in the president’s favor, according to the Trump campaign, which is reportedly now prepping a messaging blitz to take Kennedy down.
Internal polling from the Trump campaign suggests that a Kennedy third-party bid would sap more votes from the ex-president than Biden in a general election matchup, according to a Semafor report published Friday. “It’s single digits, but it’s enough where it counts to make a difference,” a person familiar with the data told the outlet.
On Friday, a week after Kennedy’s plan for a third-party bid came to light, a conservative outlet published a story on Kennedy that had all the makings of a Republican opposition research file. Kennedy, the Daily Caller noted, condemned the NRA as a “terror group” in a 2018 tweet, and, according to a 2002 interview with The Des Moines Register, said that factory farms posed a greater threat to the US than Osama bin Laden, mere months after the September 11 attacks.
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