*Because of our idiotic Electoral College system no third-party candidate, like vaccine denier Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has a chance of becoming president, however he can influence the outcome of the election. The conventional wisdom is that Kennedy's candidacy will help Trump but that appears not to be true because previously Trump had an ironclad grip on the lunatic vote, but now Trump will have to split it with Kennedy. A recent poll indicated if it was just a two-man race 47% of Kennedy supporters would vote for Trump and only 29% would vote for Biden. He really is splitting the lunatic vote, and Trump seems to have noticed and he doesn't like it:*
Trump rails against RFK Jr., calling him a ‘wasted protest vote’ <https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/27/trump-rfk-jr-2024-election-00154746> *There is even more evidence of the good deeds Robert Kennedy Junior may accomplish in the November election, not only will he cause the lunatic vote to be split between Trump and Kennedy, there's also evidence he could be instrumental in kicking Ted Cruz out of the Senate. Kennedy voters would prefer Trump over Biden, but a recent poll of Texas independent voters indicated they would prefer any Democratic senatorial candidate over Ted Cruz, who is on the ballot for reelection in November, by a margin of 50% to 38% with 12% undecided.* *THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL AND TEXAS U.S. SENATE ELECTION CONTESTS <https://www.txhpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TXHPFPresidentSenateApr2024.pdf>* *And it seems probable with Kennedy on the ballot the number of registered independent voters who decide to take the trouble to vote will significantly increase. If more independent voters go to the polls Trump will get more votes but that's OK because there is virtually no chance of Biden winning in Texas regardless of how many fringe party candidates are on the ballot, and it will increase the number of votes for Cruz's Democratic opponent.* *If that revolting prick, Ted Cruz, is kicked out of the Senate in November a little of the sting of a Trump victory and becoming the most powerful human being on Earth during the Singularity would be reduced. It would be a very small reduction in the existential dread a second Trump presidency would cause me to feel, but the relief would be greater than zero.* John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> lnm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1HKyYQ90EQeJSYRAR6%2BfBw1QKZN4%3DA8b9de8hbCYO6Pg%40mail.gmail.com.
