In the 1992 presidential race Ross Perot, who ran as an independent, got 18.9% of the vote. Perot’s candidacy cost George H.W. Bush a second term as president and got Bill Clinton elected.
Today’s national Quinnipiac poll (this polling service gets an A- rating from FiveThirtyEight) has Biden at 39%, Trump at 36%, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 22%. RFK beats Trump and Biden among 18-34 year olds.
If this poll turns out to be correct, Kennedy Jr. would be the highest third-party vote getter since Teddy Roosevelt got 27.4% of the vote running on the Progressive (“Bull Moose”) ticket in 1912.
In a four way race between Biden, Trump, RFK Jr. and Cornel West, Biden (36%) wins by a narrower margin over Trump (35%), with Kennedy at 19% and West at 6%.
Read the poll results here.
RECOMMENDED READING
Members of the Robert and Ethel Kennedy family continue to denounce Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential run 
What is going on with Robert Kennedy Jr.? 
The praying coach resigns. He’s going to stick with the right-wing media tours. 
A critic of critical race theory says the campaign against CRT is “abhorrent and dangerous and deeply disturbing”
It is All Saints Day, not no saints day..
If true, that will make him the second most successful third party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt.
What a grim verdict on the degenerating state of the American electorate.
“If we can keep it,” indeed. Glad ol’ Ben’s not here to see this.
We had a good run. Time to bail.
Everyone needs to leave in the order in which they came. Can the last Indian across the land-bridge turn off the statue?
As noted in the piece, John. (The part about TR)