RFK Jr. could be a spoiler in November. But will it help Biden or Trump?
LOS ANGELES — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign was once viewed as a quixotic quest by a scion of a storied political family — an environmental warrior who sullied his family's name most recently by aligning himself with a political party founded by a segregationist to get on the November ballot in California.
But a combination of voter apathy about President Biden and former President Trump, the two main parties' presumptive nominees, and the Kennedy campaign's successful targeting of ballot qualification rules across the nation has prompted growing alarm among Democrats and Republicans alike.
"When you have nail-bitingly close elections, nearly any candidate can be a spoiler," said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at
