What Is the Impact of RFK Jr. Remaining on the Ballot in Swing States?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "David Carlucci, a former New York state senator who is now a Democratic strategist, told The Epoch Times that Trump "gave in to RFK Jr." by accepting his endorsement and discussing a potential role in his administration.
53% : The Aug. 23 press conference, in which he announced he would back Trump, was held on a Friday.
51% : On Aug. 26, Kennedy told The Epoch Times that Trump would make a series of announcements that other Democrats are joining his campaign.
48% : Kennedy told The Epoch Times that internal polling showed, if he left the race in the swing states, 57 percent of his backers would shift their support to Trump, which played a role in his decision to leave the race and endorse Trump because he saw no path to victory.
46% : Of those who changed their preference, 39 percent shifted to Harris and 20 percent to Trump.
44% : In the weeks preceding Kennedy's decision to suspend his campaign in battleground states and endorse Trump, he found himself in courtrooms across the country testifying in DNC-backed lawsuits that were filed to keep him off the ballot.
44% : "A Vote For Trump is a Vote For Kennedy," a banner atop the home page reads.
40% : Kennedy joined Trump on stage at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, on Aug. 23 when the former president announced he would appoint Kennedy to a panel investigating the rise in chronic disease in children if he won his White House bid.
39% : Wes Farno, a Republican strategist in Ohio, told The Epoch Times that he believes Kennedy's decision to suspend his campaign in battleground states and encourage his supporters to vote for Trump could swing the election "3 percent to 4 percent" in the former president's favor.
36% : The objective is to keep him on the ballot because reports have shown Kennedy will take more votes away from Trump than Vice President Kamala Harris.
34% : Carlucci added that he agrees with analysts who believe that Kennedy's exit from the race and backing of Trump "will have minimal impact by Election Day.
32% : "Even if a small number of Kennedy supporters vote for Trump, that could have a significant impact in states that are tightly contested," Farno said.
25% : Kennedy told The Epoch Times on Aug. 26 that he would actively campaign for Trump and that there is no defined role he would have in a Trump administration.
21% : "Those are people who would have otherwise voted for Kennedy, and based on what he said his internal polling showed, many of those voters will support Trump and not Harris.
14% : Biden defeated Trump by around 21,000 votes in Wisconsin in 2020.
10% : In 2020, President Joe Biden defeated Trump by around 154,000 votes in Michigan.
9% : Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by 3.5 percent in 2016 and edged Biden by 1.3 percent in 2020.

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