RFK Jr. Hurting Trump More Than Biden As Polls Shift Again

Presidential polling is still all over the place, with some polls showing President Biden easily beating Trump, while others are still showing a tight race with Trump one or two points ahead. But these numbers change dramatically when all other candidates are included, and more and more these polls are showing that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is peeling more support away from Trump than he is from Biden. In fact, when Kennedy is included, Trump now loses, even in polls where he was ahead in a two-way matchup. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Presidential polling data is still all over the place. And depending on which poll you're looking at on any given day, it's gonna tell you either that Donald Trump is ahead or President Biden is ahead. And then two or three days later, it'll probably tell you the opposite. Uh, as it stands right now, though, in the polling aggregates, Biden is still beating Donald Trump and he is ahead in most of the polls. But a very interesting new poll came out from NBC News, NBC News in a head-to-head matchup between President Biden and Donald Trump actually has Donald Trump ahead by two points, but that's only when there's two candidates on the ballot. When they expanded and included all five people that are running for president, you know, the most high profile five Biden Trump, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. Cornell West, and Jill Stein. Suddenly, president Biden is the one ahead by two points.

And what the pollsters found was that when you include these other individuals in the poll, Kennedy takes 15% of Donald Trump's support away from him, while only taking 7% of Biden's support away from him. The poll also found that Republicans have a much more favorable opinion of RFK Jr. 40% of Republicans polled said they had a favorable view of him compared to just 16% of Democrats. So this poll confirms what previous polls done several months ago. Also found, and that is that RFK Jr, his base of support is not people on the left, it's actually people on the right. And his candidacy is more than likely going to affect Donald Trump more than it's going to affect President Biden. This poll did confirm that this poll has a 3.1% margin of error, which is about 0.1% more than you want. But given the horrific margins of errors we've seen from other polls, this one's pretty much, you know, I, I'd say it's trustworthy for the most part.

But RFK JR is presenting a very big problem for Donald Trump. And that is why in recent weeks, Donald Trump has come out and he is attacking RFK Jr more and more because their internal polling is telling them the same thing. You know, Steve Bannon had hyped up, Bobby Kennedy, Roger Stone had all these other right wing outlets back in the early days of his candidacy were hyping up Bobby Kennedy Jr. Like, oh, look at this guy. He is gonna take, he's gonna take votes away from the Democrats. But Bobby was actually, with his talking points, appealing more to people

On the right. So they hyped him up and now they're losing voters to him. So they created their own mess, like, like so very many things. By the way, in the Republican party today, they're creating their own enemies, they're creating their own demise because apparently that's the only thing Republicans know how to do. But this one, you know, hyping up Bobby Kennedy Jr. Then suddenly panicking when he is taking your supporters away, that one is probably gonna cost them the most.