Does Kennedy help or hurt Trump?

I think it hurts him a bit. I also think it hurts Kamala a little as well. Any D that was considering him over Biden is at least putting some thought into the process. Hopefully they see that Kamala is also a total dumbass.

This election is going to be close.

If the democrats can point to Kennedy as hurting Trump or at least appear to be hurting Trump, they will use it. Regardless of its reality.

I thought it hurt Trump even before Biden dropped out. Now it really hurts him.

If anything, Kennedy hurts Kamala because he's a better Democratic option.

Trump could win if he gets RFK and Tulsi to support. He could bash the looney left while saying he is wanting to work with the moderate and sane left

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They can no longer hide Kamala. We'll see how long the newness bump lasts now that she's front and center.

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You're giving retarded democrats too much credit, thinking they will start thinking for themselves. Minority voters see her as a minority and will base their vote solely on that and that alone. Whatever bump she receives after the convention is going to be where she stays, in my opinion. That's because it will come from a few undecideds. Nobody is going to switch their vote from Trump to Harris and those left in the middle will either not vote or likely vote for Trump. If they're undecided by then, they aren't happy with the way things are going now.

But to assume that eventually Kamala's support will fade is ignoring the fact of today's politics and today's politics is based on popularity and minority status factors. She aint losing support, she'll gain a tad bit from the convention and we have to hope and pray for undecideds to break Trump's way otherwise we're looking at a Harris presidency in my opinion.

Does anybody really think people who were not voting Trump regardless but were on the fence between Biden and RFK are going to vote Kamala now instead of RFK??

To me it’s pretty obvious RFK voters are the self righteous centrist people who see Trump as “far right” and would NEVER vote Trump.. they would prefer to keep the status quo, not radically shift the American political spectrum by voting for far left Harris, thus really only taking votes away from one of the candidates (not the one they were never going to vote for).

I think RFK is hurting him now. The liberal vote that was resisting Biden will support Harris, leaving the never Trump vote as the only people supporting RFK.

I don't think RFK dropping out or endorsing Trump would get Trump those votes either. Those people are protest voting.

Honestly, I think it can go either way. Him staying in took more votes away from Kamala IMO. Him dropping out I think keeps a lot of his voters home, swings some votes to Trump and gives some votes to her... but I think the votes that go to her are significantly less than the no votes or write-in votes and Trump votes. I know lifelong Democrats that have come around on the Biden Admin, Kamala etc. Months ago they were already saying they were voting RFK Jr. After the debate, assassination attempt, the hiding of Biden's cognitive decline from the public, and the blatant gaslighting from the media on Kamala the last couple weeks, some have said they would vote Trump this election.

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I thought it hurt Trump even before Biden dropped out. Now it really hurts him.

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In principle you would think he’d hurt Trump, but every Biden / Trump poll showed RFK helping Trump. Every single one of them.