Joe Biden gets a boost from third-party candidates, new poll shows

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The results of the five-way matchup were: Biden (39 percent), Trump (37 percent), Kennedy Jr. (13 percent), Stein (3 percent) and West (2 percent).
42% : According to the poll, which was conducted between April 12 to 16 and is based on the answers of 1,000 U.S. adult voters, Trump leads Biden by 2 percentage points in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup in November.
38% : However, when voters were presented with a five-way ballot, which featured Biden, Trump, Kennedy Jr., Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent Cornel West, Biden led Trump by 2 points.
37% : Preliminary polling leading up to Election Day has showed Biden and Trump to be in for a tight race.
37% : However, Trump has since flipped his opinion of him saying in a campaign video earlier this month that the independent "is the most radical left candidate in the race.
35% : Democratic strategists previously warned that independent options could upset Biden's chances, although NBC News' survey released on Sunday showed that third-party choices like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may actually end up taking votes away from Trump instead.
25% : "At the time, Kennedy Jr.'s campaign press secretary Stefanie Spear told Newsweek via email that Trump and Biden are "the two most unpopular candidates in living memory" while Kennedy Jr. was transcending "the right-left paradigm.
17% : Over half of those surveyed (52 percent) said they feel somewhat or very negative about Biden, while 53 percent said the same thing about Trump.
15% : "Sunday's poll found that the majority of respondents do not support Biden nor Trump.
7% : Several third-party and independent candidates have also emerged ahead of November, with many voters indicating that they hold an overall negative view of Biden and Trump, who are the presumptive nominees for the two major parties.

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