[big_whack]

RFK's campaign is also a spoiler, propped up in part by the same people. My sense is what happened is they realized he's a little too crazy to be effective, so they are hedging their bets with Phillips.

Exactly the same story though.

[logicchains]

If RFK ran as a third party he'd take votes from the Republican candidate, not the Democrat one. What kind of Democrat is going to vote for someone who believes vaccines cause autism and HIV doesn't cause AIDS?

[tivert]

> What kind of Democrat is going to vote for someone who believes vaccines cause autism...

Before COVID, I would have guessed the biggest reservoir of anti-vax sentiment was among very liberal Democrats (think the people who are super into yoga, organic food, and naturopathic doctors).

COVID became a culture war issue, which lead to partisan Democrats lining up on the pro-mask, pro-lockdown, pro-vaccine side, but I have no idea if that disrupted the views of existing anti-vax Democrats (of the "vaccines cause autism" variety).

[consumer451]

There are people on all side that believe crazy stuff, and crazy=maverick to a lot of people. I know some left-leaning anti-vaxers. But you do appear to be correct.

>RFK Jr. pulls more votes from Trump than Biden in three-way race: Poll

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4289365-rfk-jr-trump-v...

[big_whack]

I think your observation is why you read a lot more about Phillips these days than RFK.

RFK's promoters switched to promoting Phillips when they realized RFK was drawing more conservatives for the antivax stuff, than democrats for the Kennedy name.