Trump and Biden in vir­tu­al tie while RFK Jr pulls 22% sup­port in new poll

Near­ly one month since the war between Israel and Hamas began, a con­flict that has high­light­ed fierce ten­sions among Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans, the 2024 pri­ma­ry and gen­er­al elec­tion race remain unchanged, accord­ing to a new poll with a new excep­tion — inde­pen­dent pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A Quin­nip­i­ac Uni­ver­si­ty nation­al poll released on Wednes­day showed that in a hypo­thet­i­cal matchup between Pres­i­dent Joe Biden and for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, 47% of vot­ers sup­port Biden, while 46% sup­port Trump, a vir­tu­al tie and with­in the pol­l’s mar­gin of error of plus or minus 2.4 per­cent­age points.
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How­ev­er, in a gen­er­al elec­tion matchup includ­ing Kennedy, Biden’s sup­port drops to 39%, Trump’s sup­port drops to 36%, and Kennedy receives 22% sup­port, sug­gest­ing that Kennedy, who first ran as a Demo­c­rat, would harm Trump more than Biden in a three-way race.
“Trump goes to war with the Amer­i­can legal sys­tem, while Biden wres­tles with mil­i­tary con­flicts on two fronts. Despite the swirling tumult, the par­ti­san crit­i­cism, and ran­cor, the two can­di­dates are still as tied as tied can be,” Quin­nip­i­ac Uni­ver­si­ty polling ana­lyst Tim Mal­loy said.
Inde­pen­dents were …