It’s a bomb tossed on the Biden campaign and basically negates the possibility the Trump will lose significant percentages to RFK.
Ding Ding Ding...
RFK up til this selection pretty much offering similar populist arguments that Trump has.. his terminology was different, but his message was the same.
Trump say “swamp creatures”.. RFK says “captive agencies”... but they are talking about the same general concept.
Government isn’t working for you, because its corrupt, and I’ll fight it. RFK with this choice however, kind of damages his brand in the eyes of anyone with right leaning tendencies who would have been open to him previously, because how can you possibly fight the system, if your running mate is a well known left wing donor who’s helped to corrupt the system?
RFK will get play, but I think this choice definitely puts the target squarely on Biden as to where hes going to draw most of his votes from.
As I stated elsewhere, democrats are going to just go all out trying to destroy RFK now, because, he’s already polling around 12% in some polls, and if he hits 15% he’s on the debate stage, and if he makes it to the debate stage, Biden will be lucky to see 30% of the vote totals on election day...
This will make any chance of Potato winning off the table (which it for the most part is anyway, but this absolutely cements the deal) and with RFK drawing heavily from Biden’s pool it makes democrats desperate in the down ballot... because someone who is more left leaning, is more likely to just pull the straight party ticket in states that have this... Well, with Kennedy being their choice for president the straight party vote is OFF THE TABLE, meaning those folks will need to vote for RFK and then individually vote for every other race... and guarantee that on its own will cost the democrats a point or two in down ballot races, because many won’t do it.
NOt sure what states still have the straight party option, but ones that do, the dems there are going to lose at least point or two from the totals they would have gotten had RFK not been on the ballot.
Honestly the Democrats pushing the Potato over RFK tells you all you need to know... I say this as a 100% all in Trump supporter... If RFK had been the nominee, the Democrats would cake walk to the white house this fall... The fact they drove him out tells you all you need to know about what’s really going on in the Uniparty.