In an interview, Nicole Shanahan appeared to concede that their independent presidential bid was not likely to end in victory.

Kennedy has been funded by a bunch of billionaires who thought his name would funnel votes away from Biden. But the brain worms mad him weird enough that Democratic voters aren’t willing to vote for him in significant numbers.

  • @lennybirdEnglish
    38•3 months ago

    Oof. They realized they were spoiling the vote for Republicans more than Democrats and their little plan backfired hahaha!

  • @Numenor
    31•3 months ago

    I love how these articles never even name RFK Jr’s running name. No one knows her or her name,. If the article had said “Alisha Glacer” everyone would have been like “who?”

  • @Lauchs
    13•3 months ago

    This is actually pretty worrying. A lot of polls show Harris doing better with RFK and co on the ballot. From split polling, seems like RFK was pulling supporters from both camps but at a 3:1 ratio of trumpers. If even half of those go back to trump that’d be really bad news.

    • @FlowVoidEnglish
      15•3 months ago

      Recent polls I’ve seen show Harris doing as well or better without RFK.

      Yougov 8/14-16: Harris +2 with RFK, +3 without RFK

      Outward Intelligence 8/11-15: Harris +6 with or without RFK

      Emerson College 8/12-14: Harris +4 with or without RFK

      Ipsos 8/9-13: Harris +3 with RFK, +4 without RFK

      • @Lauchs
        5•3 months ago

        Totally fair, thanks for sharing and I love that you brought the receipts! I’m thinking of the last NYT/Sienna poll (which is kind of the gold standard) I recall. Should dive in again now that polling is a little more settled!

    • @PenguinMage
      4•3 months ago

      My step mother was planning on voting for RFK dad is full on trump… now it’s two trumps… I only cancel 1 of my family =/

  • @Nuke_the_whales
    7•3 months ago

    Who even is his running mate? I have no idea about her

    • @[email protected]OP
      12•3 months ago

      She married one of the Google founders for a few years, divorced him, and walked away with billion-dollar kind of money. Kennedy wanted her as a running mate because he figured she’d fund the campaign.

  • @[email protected]
    5•3 months ago

    Damn, Dementia DonOLD is going to be doing great with the additional three votes they’re going to bring.

  • @Pappabosley
    2•3 months ago

    I kinda assumed this was part of their plan. Rope along some Republicans who are too moderate(?) for Trump, then ditch at the last minute and tell them they have to vote for Trump now. Gives less chance that they’ll have time to sway to Dems or other 3rd party candidates

  • @CharlesDarwinEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    their independent presidential bid was not likely to end in victory

    Given the way elections are run in this country, running third party is only going to be about being a spoiler. You are never going to win.

    As for voting: voting third party is always going to be just throwing your vote away. You might as well set fire to your ballot.