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New Poll Rates Kennedy’s Favorability at 47%
Posted on July 27, 2023
Nick Reynolds
Newsweek
For so-called “longshot” candidates, Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott among Republicans and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. among Democrats sure are popular in recent polling for the 2024 presidential nominations.
Their likeability with voters, however, has so far failed to translate to tangible support for their campaigns.
When he entered the race this year, Kennedy was seen as a legitimate threat to siphon support from President Joe Biden, who wasn’t receiving full support for reelection within his own party.
Going off recent Harvard/Harris polling released last week, for example, Kennedy’s net favorability rating of +21 (meaning his favorable numbers are 21 percentage points higher than his unfavorable numbers) was 35 points higher than Biden’s as the president remained dogged by an anemic -53 favorability rating among the more than 2,000 registered voters polled.
A Flourish chart
But Kennedy has struggled to gain any momentum against a president whose job approval has regularly sagged well below lows seen by Trump, Barack Obama or George W. Bush in polls conducted during their presidencies. While 16 percent of Democratic voters in last week’s poll said they would support Kennedy over Biden, the president still enjoys the backing of 62 percent of Democratic voters.
And it’s not just against Biden. In a hypothetical matchup against Vice President Kamala Harris, Kennedy would get only about 22 percent of the vote.
Newsweek reached out to Kennedy’s campaign via email for comment. However, the answer for Kennedy’s inability to break through is, seemingly, simple: Biden, despite his unpopularity with Republicans and independents, is still very popular within his own party.
Though some two-thirds of voters said they didn’t want Biden to run for a second term (including 38 percent of Democrats) in a poll of 922 registered voters by The Messenger/Harris released Tuesday, Biden still enjoys a 78 percent approval rating among members of his own party while Kennedy, for the most part, has enjoyed most of his public-facing support from conservative groups and donors eager for a challenger to Biden.
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Via https://www.newsweek.com/robert-kennedy-jr-would-winning-2024-if-it-was-popularity-contest-1815284
THANKS TO: https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2023/07/27/new-poll-rates-kennedys-favorability-at-47/
Posted on July 27, 2023
Nick Reynolds
Newsweek
For so-called “longshot” candidates, Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott among Republicans and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. among Democrats sure are popular in recent polling for the 2024 presidential nominations.
Their likeability with voters, however, has so far failed to translate to tangible support for their campaigns.
When he entered the race this year, Kennedy was seen as a legitimate threat to siphon support from President Joe Biden, who wasn’t receiving full support for reelection within his own party.
Going off recent Harvard/Harris polling released last week, for example, Kennedy’s net favorability rating of +21 (meaning his favorable numbers are 21 percentage points higher than his unfavorable numbers) was 35 points higher than Biden’s as the president remained dogged by an anemic -53 favorability rating among the more than 2,000 registered voters polled.
A Flourish chartBut Kennedy has struggled to gain any momentum against a president whose job approval has regularly sagged well below lows seen by Trump, Barack Obama or George W. Bush in polls conducted during their presidencies. While 16 percent of Democratic voters in last week’s poll said they would support Kennedy over Biden, the president still enjoys the backing of 62 percent of Democratic voters.
And it’s not just against Biden. In a hypothetical matchup against Vice President Kamala Harris, Kennedy would get only about 22 percent of the vote.
Newsweek reached out to Kennedy’s campaign via email for comment. However, the answer for Kennedy’s inability to break through is, seemingly, simple: Biden, despite his unpopularity with Republicans and independents, is still very popular within his own party.
Though some two-thirds of voters said they didn’t want Biden to run for a second term (including 38 percent of Democrats) in a poll of 922 registered voters by The Messenger/Harris released Tuesday, Biden still enjoys a 78 percent approval rating among members of his own party while Kennedy, for the most part, has enjoyed most of his public-facing support from conservative groups and donors eager for a challenger to Biden.
[…]
Via https://www.newsweek.com/robert-kennedy-jr-would-winning-2024-if-it-was-popularity-contest-1815284
THANKS TO: https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2023/07/27/new-poll-rates-kennedys-favorability-at-47/
