Prospects for Joe Biden winning a second term look dire if third party candidates follow through on promises to run for president, according to a new poll.
For the first time in its polling, The Wall Street Journal predicts that Trump would beat Biden in a 2024 head to head by 47 per cent to 43 per cent.
However, that lead extends to six points if a third-party candidate enters the race.
Robert Kennedy Jr, who has vehemently indicated that he will run, would capture 8 per cent of the vote, with as many as five independents scooping up 17 per cent between them.
Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat senator, suggested he may run independent, and left-wing professor Cornel West has also entered the race as a “People’s Party” candidate.
Both would drain votes from Biden, with Manchin being pushed as a candidate for the bipartisan No Labels party.
“With polls showing voters to be unenthusiastic over a choice between Mr Biden and Mr Trump, there is growing speculation that the group could put up a centrist ticket with a raft of big names being floated including Larry Hogan, the moderate and popular former governor of Maryland,” reports the Telegraph.
Democrat strategists also fear that the loss of Muslim voters thanks to Biden’s steadfast support for Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza could “cost them the election”.
Top Dems have been trying for over a year to convince Biden to drop out of the race, but the president only suggested he would do so if Trump wasn’t the Republican nominee, an unlikely scenario.
As we highlighted last week, Trump is considering calling on Tucker Carlson to be his running mate in another move that would energize his base.
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You don’t have to be popular to win, when you’re a Democrat.
You don’t win unless you kiss israels ass.
Step in donald, israel needs some butt kissing.
He will be throwing as many dead man ngo votes and dodgy voting machines as possible in this election.