Interesting read

Hmm, this is definitely interesting. From Houman David Hemmati on X. 

 

Many have been dismissive of Bobby Kennedy Jr and his chances of winning or impacting the outcome of the election. With his likely switch to running as an independent (which would bypass the Democrat primary) I wouldn’t be so sure about that.

 

Likely Kennedy voters in a general election in which RFK Jr is running as an Independent:

 

-Non woke Democrats who don’t want open borders and endless talk of gender etc. 

 

-Legal immigrants who are fed up with open border crisis.

 

-Conservative Democrats (including military service members & veterans) who hate what happened in Afghanistan.

 

-Moderate to conservative Democrats who are disillusioned by the direction of our country in general.

 

-Hard core Biden supporters who can no longer afford gas, food, rent, and can’t afford to buy a house given the tripling in interest rates under Biden and reluctantly feel there’s no choice but to change leadership.

 

-Anti-mandate/lock-down/censorship Democrats who felt lied to, belittled and betrayed by Biden and Democrats in general.

 

-Democrat parents who are upset at Democrat supported school closures & alignment with teachers unions, school mandates and curriculum shift away from core academics to social & agendas-inappropriate issues.

 

-Democrats who regret voting for Biden but who can never bring themselves to vote for a GOP candidate.

 

-Democrats and independents who are deeply concerned about Biden’s age and rapid cognitive decline but who’d never vote for a Democrat as president.

 

-Democrats who are royally upset at Biden and DNC refusing to allow a Biden/Kennedy debate and rigging the nomination against Kennedy and want to teach the Democrats a lesson.

 

-Pro-choice (or non-anti-abortion-for-all) Republican voters (and there are many) who are uncomfortable with the GOP’s position on abortion and view it as hypocritical given the party’s support for bodily autonomy during COVID but who really don’t like Biden.

 

-(Assuming Trump is the nominee) Never Trump Republicans. 

 

-Older Americans who have nostalgia for the Kennedy name.

 

Kennedy’s poll numbers are low compared to Biden in a Democrat primary but they’re exceptionally high considering how hard the party’s worked against him. Running in the general election, he’ll be able to appeal to all registered voters without the constraints of winning over primary voters from one party. 

 

And when you look at Trump’s 2016 margins of victory in key battleground states, you can see that those third/no-party candidates on the ballot like Jill Stein, who siphoned votes from Hillary, are in large part responsible for his win. 

 

So I say buckle up because this is about to get very interesting. What do you think?