Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Has Some Strong Polling – President Joe Biden likes to put on a front that he’s the unchallenged Democratic Party presidential candidate for 2024. Certainly, he retains the highest percentage of support among Democrats. He will likely win the nomination.
Just don’t say that he’s unchallenged.
Or that his victory in 2024 will be easy. It won’t be. And, if Biden takes the elitist approach that he seems to be favoring—ignoring and refusing to debate the challengers on his Left—the forty-sixth president might reveal to the world how dangerously weak he really is.
There are two challengers to Biden thus far.
RFK, Jr., Does Well Despite Roadblocks
One of them, gonzo, crystal-worshipping, Marianne Williamson, who is polling at nine percent among likely Democratic Party voters.
More importantly, however, is the 19 percent that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is enjoying after announcing his upstart bid to become the next Democratic Party presidential nominee.
Maligned and misrepresented by a completely partisan media, RFK, Jr., was written off before he even ran.
Dubbed as the “anti-vax” candidate whose own prestigious family wants nothing to do with him, RFK, Jr., not even Biden wants to countenance a debate. Despite the hurdles that RFK, Jr., must overcome just to be heard, his polling is astounding.
If Marianne Williamson dropped out of the race—or if RFK, Jr., started coordinating with Williamson—RFK, Jr., could probably do significant damage to Biden in a primary that Biden refuses to participate in.
I believe that RFK, Jr.’s 19 percent in the recent Gallup poll would be far higher if the media wasn’t doing everything in its power to both ignore RFK, Jr., and to carry water for Joe Biden. What’s more, if Williamson wasn’t in the race; if it was a head-to-head matchup, I think that RFK, Jr.’s numbers would be stratospheric right now.
And why shouldn’t they be?
Whatever one’s opinion about RFK, Jr., might be, the fact of the matter is that he’s more than a vaccine skeptic. He has a storied history of fighting corporate overreach in the environmental sector. RFK, Jr., is a known defender of personal liberty—something rarely defended by Democrats today.
He comes across as sincere. Further, he’s younger than Joe Biden. RFK, Jr., is much more articulate than Biden and he appears to have a command of the key issues in this upcoming presidential election more than Biden does.
I wrote previously about how RFK, Jr.’s campaign was a dagger aimed at the heart of the façade that the Democratic Party and the media have created around the Biden Campaign for president in 2024.
A thin veneer is all that separates the myth of Joe Biden from the reality that he is a corrupt, senile, and extreme Left-winger who has been successfully shielded from the electorate by a vast, interlocking system of Democratic Party vessels all of whom benefit from Joe Biden remaining in power.
RFK, Jr., is not only a direct threat to the budding corporatocracy that is slowly consuming this country, but he is also a threat to the Democratic Party establishment. And that makes me like the man even more. More interestingly, because of RFK, Jr.’s appeal, he is starting to cleave Trump voters away from the forty-fifth president’s reelection bid and toward his own campaign. Trump needs every vote he can get. Should RFK, Jr., somehow manage to defy the odds and defeat Biden in the primary, and if Trump is the GOP nominee in 2024, RFK, Jr., just might be able to trounce Trump.
Still, the media blackout and misrepresentation of RFK, Jr., as some demented conspiracy theorist is going to hurt his chances. Although, it is more important to contextualize RFK, Jr.’s high polling numbers.
We’ve already seen a spate of polls that indicate that while most Democrats will support Joe Biden’s reelection campaign in 2024, they will do so begrudgingly. Perhaps RFK, Jr., is more unconventional than what most Democratic Party voters will tolerate in their candidate (certainly more than what most DNC powerbrokers will allow for in the primary).
But what happens if a less controversial candidate, recognizing Biden’s severe weakness, decides to run?
RFK, Jr., Might Inspire More Serious Democrats to Challenge Biden
I understand that California’s Governor Gavin Newsom has already put the kibosh on running against Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic Party Primary. That was before the supposedly insane RFK, Jr., easily picked up nearly 20 percent support from the Democratic Party’s base less than two weeks after he announced his candidacy—with a media blackout in place.
If Biden is this unpopular as to be risking being primaried by a man with double-digit support despite so much stacked against him, how could Biden possibly hope to achieve victory in a General Election in 2024 against a galvanized Republican Party?
Perhaps Gavin Newsom will convince himself (and others) that, irrespective of his past promises to give Biden a wide berth in 2024, to save the party (and, as he sees it, the country), Newsom must run in 2024.
Should the young, virile, and ideologically extreme California Democratic Party governor decide to wade into the DNC primary in 2024, he will decisively defeat all opponents and be well positioned to challenge the GOP contender.
All this, because RFK, Jr., is showing Democrats and the world that Biden is weak and ripe for defeat. We are living in truly wild political times. The Biden Campaign ignores RFK, Jr.’s threat at their own political peril.
A 19FortyFive Senior Editor, Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who is a contributor at The Washington Times, as well as at American Greatness and the Asia Times. He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower (Republic Book Publishers), Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life (May 16), and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy (July 23). Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon.
