Listen 4 min Share Comment on this story Comment Add to your saved stories Save Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s poll numbers probably remain inflated, as he transitions from a primary challenge against President Biden to an independent candidacy.... It’s no coincidence that the best third-party results in the 21st century came in 2016.... That was in large part because exit polls showed only 4 in 10 Americans liked either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, making them two of the most unpopular major-par

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CNN — The 2024 presidential primaries are in full swing.... This puts a lot of Americans in a position they don’t want to be in: A historically large share of them do not like either man at this point.... A CNN/ SSRS poll from earlier this month found that more Americans viewed neither Biden nor Trump favorably than those who held favorable views of either man....

A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter.... But that won’t stop the Green Party or the Libertarians from fielding candidates every election year.... And this year, the centrist group No Labels is trying to achieve ballot access for some kind of third-party unity candidate, although details are not yet entirely clear....

Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story Comment Add to your saved stories Save Third-party presidential candidates will most likely never perform the way the 2024 polls suggest they do right now.... And since then, they’ve gobbled up even more support: Advertisement A New York Times/ Siena College poll of six key battleground states showed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking 24 percent in a three-way matchup with President Biden and Donald Trump.... He was within about 10 points of both....

The 2024 election cycle got a lot weirder this week when it was revealed that independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once had a worm enter and eat part of his brain.... Trump’s lead jumped to 9 points over Biden when Kennedy, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent Cornel West were included in the ballot test.... While other polls haven’t been nearly as kind to Kennedy, pretty much all of them have him hitting double-digits when he is a named option.( To make the debate stage, ca

Join our Whatsapp channel Elon Musk, an ex-ally of US President Donald Trump, said on Saturday he had launched a new political party in the United States to challenge what the tech billionaire described as the country’s “ one-party system.” The world’s richest person — and Trump’s biggest political donor in the 2024 election — had a bitter falling out with the president after leading the Republican’s effort to slash spending and cut federal jobs as head of the so-called Department of Government

The Supreme Court seems likely to significantly scale back access to abortion when it rules on a Mississippi law that sharply limits the procedure — if the court doesn’t overturn Roe v.... Combined, we get a situation like the current court. There are nine sitting justices, four of whom were confirmed by large majorities in the Senate.... Another four — Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — received fewer than 55 votes for confirmation. Only those latter

He’s also the only modern, major-party nominee to back out of a general election debate, during the pandemic four years ago. The RNC voted in 2022 to end its relationship with the nonpartisan system that has sponsored general election debates since the 1988 presidential campaign.... But he has remained coy about whether he will debate Trump in the general election.“ I don’t know if he’s serious, ” Biden told CNN after the Gridiron Dinner on Saturday when asked whether he expects to debate the f

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to a California hospital on Tuesday for an infection, according to a spokesperson." On Tuesday, President Clinton was admitted to UCI Medical Center to receive treatment for a non-COVID-related infection," Angel Ure？... a, spokesperson for Clinton, said in a statement Thursday.... That source told the Times Clinton is recovering.Dr....