These are strange times in United States politics, and anything can happen. Even that A third political party manages to gain a foothold in the 2024 elections They scraped votes from their two big opponents, two giants like the Republican and Democratic parties, who thought they would never have to share the pie with anyone else. Their confidence is understandable; voters' unusual interest in third-party candidates has not been seen since 1992, when the Independent Party came into power Ross Perot won this year with almost 19% of the vote, edges that have not been seen since. Now the latest Monmouth University poll shows that one in five registered voters would be willing to support independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of the former US president He was assassinated in November 1963.
The aspiring candidate, who initially chose to present himself as a political option within the Democratic Party, supports many populist positions This overlap between Trump's base and some more progressive parts of the Democratic Party. Kennedy supports a stronger middle class and is often the scourge of the rich and elite. The third candidate poses a threat to both candidates, both Biden (the takes away 4% of voters that he had), as far as Trump is concerned, (from the one who takes 3% of his followers). Kennedy has more supporters on the Democratic side than on the Republican side, but experts say the momentum comes from his family name and not his political and social agenda. In fact, the same Monmouth University survey suggests that a 50% of the public is completely unaware of Kennedy Jr.'s support for conspiracy theories For example, that autism is directly related to vaccinations or that Covid was created to “attack” people of certain races and destroy these social groups.
American Values 2024 (AV2024), op ¨Great PAC“The fundraising made that happen.” plans to spend up to $15 million Adding Kennedy Jr. to the ballot in 10 states critical to winning the 2024 election. The job isn't easy, as both Democrats and Republicans have been responsible over the years for making the process increasingly cumbersome, and so you don't have to deal with the competition.
The majority of the money collected by AV24 will be used to collect door-to-door signatures as required by state law in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York and Texas. According to the campaign team, these represent states Half the signatures nationwide Kennedy needs to put his name on the ballot 2024. Much of the funds raised by AV24 come from a former political sponsor of Donald Trump named Timothy Mellon, a millionaire American businessman who donated more than $50 million to a fund to build the Texas-Mexico border world.
No matter how promising Kennedy Jr.'s career may seem in this election, any turn of events is possible, and experts point out that this initial enthusiasm for a third party is generally responding to voter frustration disappointed with the main candidates, Trump and Biden, and they punish them this way. According to Joe Lenski, co-founder and executive vice president of Edison Reserach, the votes for RFK Jr. are nothing more than a “cry for help” of the voting public. Lenski also advances another theory: the more voters know about a candidate, the less they like him. “You know a lot less about RFK Jr. and his views than you do about Donald Trump and Joe Biden.”