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on Thursday scoffed at the notion that he would debate long shot presidential hopeful even as the former president’s allies show more concern about Kennedy’s campaign. “I don’t know anything about him,” Trump told reporters as he left his . “Look, RFK is falling very low.
” Trump repeatedly attacked Kennedy over social media this past weekend, despite the former president's claim that he knows little about Kennedy. "He's, uh, not a serious candidate," Trump said on Thursday. "They say he hurts Biden.
I don't know who he hurts, he might hurt me. I don't know. He has very low numbers, certainly not numbers that he can debate with.
He's got to get his numbers a lot higher before he's credible." Early polling has also shown that Kennedy's inclusion hurts Trump. An NBC News national poll found that Trump led Biden by two points, but when Kennedy and other third-party hopefuls were added, Biden ended up with a two-point lead.
It should be noted both outcomes are within the margin of error and illustrate the extremely close margin of the race entering the summer. According to FiveThirtyEight's weighted national polling average, Kennedy is polling at 10% while Trump and Biden are at 41.4% and 40.
8% respectively. The former president's barrage of criticism comes after Kennedy showed genuine efforts to appeal to Trump voters. The noted vaccine skeptic has refused to rule out recalling the Moderna COVID-19 shot, a position held by his running mate, Nicole Shanahan.
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