(Daily Mail) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed in an interview with Dr. Phil that his team has data suggesting at least 57 percent of his voters will choose Donald Trump over Kamala Harris.
Kennedy, the nephew of late Democratic President John F. Kennedy, said Friday he was suspending his campaign, withdrawing from the race in swing states because, ‘I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats, with whom I disagree on the most existential issues.’
Speaking to the popular talk show host, Kennedy said that the decision is data driven.
‘What we recognized from our polling is that if I stayed in the race, it would’ve almost certainly swung the race to Vice President Harris,’ he said.
‘I did not wanna give the election, I didn’t think it would be right to give the election to her.’
Kennedy, who says he’s been driven away from the Democrat Party, told Dr. Phil he disagrees with Harris on all the major issues, including censorship, war, chronic disease and the border.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview with Dr. Phil that his team has data suggesting at least 57 percent of his voters will choose Donald Trump over Kamala Harris
Kennedy, the nephew of late Democratic President John F. Kennedy said Friday he was suspending his campaign , withdrawing from the race in swing states because, ‘I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats, with whom I disagree on the most existential issues’
He then cited his team’s polling numbers: ‘From the beginning showed pretty consistently that if I got out of the race, 57 percent of the people who were supporting me would vote for Trump.’
‘Me staying in the race could’ve very likely thrown the race to Harris,’ Kennedy added.
Kennedy says that he thinks it’s ‘much more likely that President Trump will get elected’ now that he’s suspended his campaign.
He noted that he still heavily disagrees with Trump’s ‘environmental stances’ but says he agrees with him on the most important issues in this election.
Kennedy added: ‘Our conversation, my conversation with President Trump, was very amiable. He talked about starting a unity party, about President Lincoln and his team of rivals.’
‘I can come in and support him because of these existential issues that I feel strongly about, he feels strongly about, that Kamala is on the wrong side.’
While many predicted that RFK Jr. would be disastrous for Joe Biden, it’s an open question whether he has the same impact on Harris based on polling numbers.
DailyMail.com polling suggests that RFK Jr.’s exit could give the Republican a boost.
Speaking to the popular talk show host, Kennedy said that the decision is data driven and doesn’t want to throw the election to Kamala Harris
Kennedy says that he thinks it’s ‘much more likely that President Trump will get elected’ now that he’s suspended his campaign
Our latest poll with J.L. Partners, conducted from August 7 to 11, found that of 1,001 likely voters only five percent would vote for Kennedy if the election were tomorrow.
He was far behind Trump on 43 percent and Harris on 41 percent.
But when that poll was combined with a second survey to ask whether they lean more to Trump or to Harris the results appear to be decisive: More than half (51 percent) said they leaned towards the former president.
About a quarter (26 percent) said they leaned more to Harris. That could swell Trump’s voter base by a point or two.
Previous J.L. Partners polls had shown he had picked up more support from the left than the right.
‘The data also show there is a small but significant group of voters who opted for Biden in 2020, moved to RFK Jr, and are now leaning Trump,’ said Johnson.
‘These voters—who used RFK Jr as a sort of gateway drug to backing Trump—could make all the difference in states on a knife-edge, and RFK Jr’s dropping out will give Trump a boost in these states.
‘It is a more significant development than anything out of the DNC this week.’
