UVA Professor Larry Sabato on batsh**-crazy-extremist RFK Jr.’s decision to drop out and endorse Donald Trump:
“[RFK Jr.] is entitled to do anything whatever he wants…but this is a very odd combination of ‘I’m withdrawing and I’m endorsing Trump but I’m remaining on the ballots in a lot of states, please vote for me’. I guess people will eventually figure it out, but Katie, it doesn’t matter. He has been dropping like a rock ever since Kamala Harris got in. When he started he was in the upper teens, in some polls he was in the low 20s, and now AT BEST he’s at 5% or 6% in some of the states, and those polls are outdated, you know we’ve had a Democratic convention. One network poll just a few days ago had him at 2%…For people who think that because he’s endorsing Trump, he can just move that 2% into Trump’s column, they don’t know much about politics. It doesn’t work that way. It’s not going to work that way. Some of them will go to Trump. Some of them will go to Harris. Some of them may choose someone else on the ballot…and a lot of them will be couch voters, particularly the low-information voters who were attracted to him because of his name; he tried to cash in on the Kennedy magic, and it turns out that magic was in the 1960s, it was not transferred to this century…
…I can think of several hundred things that would have more impact than RFK Jr. dropping out of the campaign and endorsing Trump, kind of…But frankly, it’s embarrassing…I say this as a guy in the 60s who loved President Kennedy and Senator Kennedy, it’s just embarrassing…”
Well said by Professor Sabato!
Center Director @LarrySabato discusses with @MSNBC where RFK Jr.’s support might go following his decision today to (sort of) “suspend” his Independent campaign and endorse Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/OhknL8tEwo
— Center for Politics at UVA (@Center4Politics) August 23, 2024
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