A majority of general election voters – including a majority of Democrats – want to see 81-year-old Joe Biden debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a Democratic primary debate despite the Democratic Party’s insistence that there will be no primary debates for the party.
New polling released by Trafalgar Group reveals that 92.8% of Republicans and 80.1% of unaffiliated voters want to see Kennedy debate Biden. They are joined by 57.5% of Democratic voters, who too would like to see their party’s nominating process include a debate.
The survey was conducted between June 5-9 of this year and includes 1,088 likely general election voters. Trafalgar Group claims a +/- 2.9% margin of error.
Kennedy, the vaccine skeptic son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, both assassinated – has repeatedly expressed a desire to debate Biden, and has ratcheted up his attacks on the Democratic establishment for preventing primary debates.
I have known and liked Joe Biden for many years, but we differ profoundly on fundamental issues such as corporate influence in government, censorship, civil liberties, poverty, corruption, and war policy, among others. I look forward to engaging him in debates and town hall…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 25, 2023
“The DNC, at this point, has taken the official position that there will be no debate, and I think that’s unfortunate,” Kennedy told Breitbart News Sunday in April.
“When you have so many Americans who are concerned about election integrity, we should be doing everything we can in our party [Democrat Party] to show that, you know, this is not rigged, rigged system. That it is actually democracy,” Kennedy explained, “people can run and that they can get to debate and that the public is gonna be able to see them, and they’re [the DNC] doing kind of the opposite.”
Kennedy lamented that “too many Americans who already think that the whole system is rigged” and “this is confirmation of that, and I think that’s troubling.”
Typically the party in control of the White House does not hold primary debates when the president seeks a second term in office, instead unifying around the incumbent candidate.
However, some believe Kennedy’s surprisingly high polling could pressure Democrat party leaders to consent to a debate between Biden and Kennedy.
