Environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and self-help author Marianne Williamson are both polling ahead of former GOP New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in their respective presidential primaries. In fact, the latest polling shows Williamson with double Christie’s support, and RFK Jr. with quadruple the support of the former governor. But it’s not Williamson and Kennedy who are making it on the airwaves.
According to RealClearPolitics’ latest aggregate of surveys, Christie is running in the GOP presidential race with roughly 3 percent support. In the last major poll conducted by CBS and YouGov, the brash-talking governor, who’s running on a purely anti-Trump platform, landed at just 2 percent. Williamson earned 4 percent in an Emerson survey conducted around the same time.
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But despite his low poll numbers, the media — hungry for anti-Trump soundbites — remain eager to feature Christie, who was once seen as the future face of the GOP. As Trump runs away with nearly 56 percent support in the crowded GOP field, Politico propped up Christie’s campaign as “the most interesting candidacy in the Republican primary, and the most important.”
Meanwhile, according to a new poll out on Aug. 1 from The New York Times and Siena College, half of likely Democrat primary voters want the party to nominate someone other than President Joe Biden. But Williamson and Kennedy, the only two major Democrats to launch a primary challenge for the White House, have had
