According to a NEWSMAX report, third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is polling very well with Latino voters — so well, it may cost Biden the election.
From NEWSMAX:
The poll of 2,010 registered Latino voters found Kennedy winning one in five young Latino voters, and also capturing 21% Latino support in Nevada and 17% in Arizona.
In the survey, Biden’s struggle to win over Latinos resulted in former President Donald Trump winning among Hispanics overall in 12 battleground states, 41% to 34%.
Those numbers in November likely would help Republicans win Nevada and Arizona.
“Kennedy is a golden name in Democratic politics, and any support he derives comes almost totally at the expense of Biden,” Fernand Amandi, Hispanic pollster for former President Barack Obama’s two campaigns, told Politico.
In 2020, Biden won Arizona by less than 11,000 votes and Nevada by 34,000 votes.
“They need to step it up,” Leo Murrieta, Nevada director for the progressive Make the Road Action, said of the Biden campaign. “They may dismiss this RFK lunatic, but he poses a threat, and they’re on thin ice.”
Recently, RFK Jr. said he could make the argument that President Biden is more dangerous for Democracy than former President Donald Trump.
“I can make the argument that President Biden is the much worse threat to democracy, and the reason for that is President Biden is the first candidate in history — the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent,” RFK said.
“I think that is a threat to democracy, [Trump] overthrowing — trying to overthrow the election — clearly is a threat to democracy,” he said. “But the question was, Who is a worse threat to democracy?”
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— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) April 4, 2024