RFK offers Biden a ‘deal’
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needled President Biden on Wednesday, offering a zany “no spoiler” agreement that whichever of the two is least likely to defeat Donald Trump drops out of the race in October.
During a news conference in Brooklyn, the 70-year-old RFK Jr. proposed that he and Biden co-fund a 50-state poll of at least 30,000 likely voters to determine which candidate is the true “spoiler” who would ensure a victory for the 45th president by continuing to campaign.
“Ultimately, I think what we all want in this election is Americans not to feel like they have to vote out of fear,” Kennedy told reporters. “That they feel like they can vote out of hope. And that is only going to happen if there’s a two-way race between me and President Trump or me and President Biden.”
There is almost no chance that Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for a second term, would take Kennedy’s offer — even as polls show a chunk of theoretical support for the president taking a close look at RFK Jr.
At Wednesday’s event, the Kennedy campaign cited a 50state poll conducted by John Zogby Strategies that indicated the independent would win a two-way race against Biden and Trump.
In the survey, which polled over 26,000 people, Kennedy won 367 electoral votes to Biden’s 171. Against Trump, RFK Jr. barely obtained the magic number of 270 electoral votes. In the widely expected Trump-Biden rematch, the 45th president knocked off his successor by 294 electoral votes to 244, according to Zogby.
The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to inquiries from The Post.