Posted on 03/27/2024 10:19:43 AM PDT by libstripper
The vote is by state not member. The GOP could be down 235 to 200 and still control 26 states. Not democratic but Constitutional.
BEcause Biden has at least twice refused him protection. They should be advertising Biden’s pettiness and hate filled brain.
Think you’re right about debate results, except I don’t think there will be any debates. Giving Joe enough Adderall will kill him.
The last third party candidate to win any electoral votes was George Wallace.
“but this girl is a left wing loon”
a very rich left loon girl and half Chinese
I don’t know if Ross Perot is an apples to apples comparison to RFJ Jr, except for the fact that they are 3rd party candidates, and 3rd party candidates always fail miserably in our two party racket.
Ross Perot had money, most of all, but he had a certain sort of charisma, in a cheeky old texas sort of way.
RFK Jr. has the family name, and though he isn’t overly charismatic, he has both the name and a gravitas, particularly with democrats.
OF course, the DNC is going to set out to destroy RFK Jr., simply because of how much a threat he is to them, but here’s the big wild card:
NOBODY LIKES BIDEN!
So 40% of the country HATES Trump, and much of that 40% plus the 30% that call themselves independents want an alternative to Biden because he is old, feeble, and embarrassing.
That’s a huge window.
So Trump has at least 40%+ locked. How much of the independents he can get will be the key, as well as making some inroads with Hispanics and black males.
If Biden has some really embarrassing public falling down moment, or if he locks up and craps the bed at a public speaking event, the door will swing wide open for RFK Jr. and it will turn into a delegate fight in congress. If they can do a Hidin’ Biden like they did in 2020, then it’s going to be a close race, and if RFK Jr. gets even 5% of the vote, it could swing several states Trump’s way without any delegate threats.
But the point is, I think RFK Jr. is a bigger threat than Ross Perot, and the democrats do to. They are already on the attack.
“Trump and Kennedy need to go on the air immediately with an ad pointing out the Kennedy family history of assassinations and that Biden is refusing to grant RFK Jr secret service protection. Paint him as spiteful and mean. I guarantee it would work.”
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An excellent point, and a great way to drive a wedge between Biden’s bulls#it narrative and any Democrat with half a brain and any sense of history (granted, there aren’t many, but we only need 1%-2% in some key states).
The Democrats aren’t attacking RFK because they’re afraid he will win any states. They’re attacking him because they know he can draw thousands of votes from Biden in key swing states. It’s that simple.
“The only thing to worry about is if Kennedy gets enough of the vote preventing Trump from getting enough electoral votes and the election gets thrown into the House.”
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Kennedy won’t come anywhere close to winning any electoral votes. In the general, all states are winner take all. None are proportional.
Trump needs to empathize oil and guns. Things that divide Kennedy from the right and unites him with the left.
It’s a lost art, like how they built the pyramids.
She’s simply not “Presidential Timber” to use Trump’s quote of the caliber of person that should be chosen for VP. Neither is Harris, of course. Trump needs to deliver a standout choice, and not a token, to separate himself in this regard.
[Gamechanger? Nah. Kennedy forgot you don’t appoint a bundler to the VP role. Ambassadorship, Secretary, perhaps, but not VP.
He was never a serious candidate.]
Biden fears Kennedy more than he feared Bernie Sanders. But he had no problem deleting Sanders. Will he remove Kennedy as easily??
“former wife of Google cofounder Sergey Brin”
so she’s very deep state connected
The is great news, the left-winger is going to hurt the democrats.
And her core issues. Abortion, feminism, social justice, climate change. She is on the far left side of Populism, with politicians like Bernie Sanders, or groups like Occupy Wall Street. Trump's brand of Right Wing Populism is nearly a polar opposite of RFK Jr/Nicole Shanahan.
But there is a significant effort to sell them as a solid right wing choice vs Trump, as if conservatives can't discern the difference between Left Wing and Right Wing Populism. That effort is pretty clear right here on FR, with a vocal group of "conservative" freepers fawning over Kennedy.
approximately 70 percent of voters indicate they do not want Biden or Trump as their next president.
This is a made-up statistic. Just Trump supporters alone make up more than 30% of the electorate.
Enter — stage middle — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Middle? Rather, far left.
Totally Agree!!!!
Only 7 states still have strait party voting. Michigan and Nevada are probably the only 2 Biden would likely win, and could be effected by forcing voters to select individual candidates.
If RFK Jr can build enthusiasm, particularly in millennials, he could do to Biden what Perot did to HW Bush, though with a smaller share of the vote.
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