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Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG, File)
WASHINGTON — The number of voters who say they don't like either party's presidential candidate – known as “double haters” – has reached an all-time high, making up a quarter of voters, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center.
That's nearly double the number so far in 2020.
Double-averse voters were a major factor in Republican candidate Donald Trump's upset victory over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016. But President Joe Biden won over many of these voters on his way to winning the White House in 2020.
A Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll from May found that Biden and Trump rated disillusioned voters in battleground states roughly equally, with Biden receiving 25% of votes and Trump receiving 22%.
But the biggest threat to Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump is that voters disgusted by them will simply not turn out to the polls, or turn to independents such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has 24% support in the Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll. Other third-party candidates combined have 12% support.
Increasing political polarization has led to increased unpopularity: A Pew Research Center analysis found that presidential candidates are only slightly less popular within their parties than they were 30 years ago, but are far more unpopular with voters from the opposing party.
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Read more at the Boston Herald
