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Former President Donald Trump’s allies may end up regretting long shot presidential campaign. A new poll by shows that while some conventional wisdom labels Kennedy as more of a threat to President Joe Biden’s reelection, that may not actually be the case. In the survey, NBC found that a greater share of Trump voters flock to the noted 's campaign when their presidential choices are expanded beyond just Trump and Biden.
Trump leads Biden by 2 points (within the margin of error) in a two-on-two rematch, but the advantage flips to Biden by the same margin when the field is expanded to Biden, Trump, Kennedy, Jill Stein, and Cornel West. On the one hand, it makes sense why such a coalition would exist. Kennedy has even claimed that Trump's allies approached him to be the former president's running mate.
A Politico analysis also found that a greater share of small donors to Kennedy's campaign previously gave similar amounts to Trump than Kennedy-Biden donors. On a much larger scale, GOP megadonor Timothy Mellon gave a pro-Kennedy super PAC $5 million. A New York activist who had worked for Kennedy's campaign also talked up a potential alliance between the former president and the candidate whose name is synonymous with the Democratic Party.
Trump has never styled himself as a traditional conservative like his former vice president, Mike Pence. The former president has also expressed uneasiness about the COVID-19 vaccines, even though the Trump administration was instrumental i.
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