On "Forbes Newsroom," HarrisX CEO Dritan Nesho discussed a new HarrisX/Forbes poll showing the standing of third party candidates since the presidential debate.
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00:00What about the impact on third parties here? Because yesterday I was talking to the Libertarian
00:04Party presidential nominee, Chase Oliver, and he said, selfishly, I hope Biden stays in the race
00:10because I think more voters will come to me. The night of the debate, I had multiple Democratic
00:15voters talking to me, messaging me saying, hey, I'm a lifelong Democrat. I can't vote for Trump.
00:21But in good conscience, I can't vote for Biden. So are third parties benefiting from Biden's debate
00:27performance? Well, there's not a lot of third party choice out there. I mean, the strongest
00:33third party candidate is RFK Jr. He wasn't on the debate stage. We asked the question in our own
00:41Harris X Forbes poll, are you more or less likely to vote for Trump, for Biden and for
00:49an independent candidate? And what we noticed is that by a margin of plus 10 points, they were
00:57much more likely to vote for Trump. So 39 percent said more likely, 29 percent said less likely. The
01:04rest said it didn't make any difference. When you look at Biden, by a margin of 15 points,
01:11they said that they were less likely to vote for him after watching the debate than they were to
01:17vote for him after the debate. And then we asked the same question for a third party candidate,
01:23and it was 18 percent more likely to vote for the third party candidate, 19 percent less likely
01:28to vote. And then for the overwhelming majority, it did make a difference. So whatever shaking of
01:33the box happened with the debate, these voters aren't really yet thinking about RFK Jr. or any
01:41of the third party candidate. None of the tickets are prominent enough at this stage to be able to
01:47capture a good share of vote. At least that's what we're seeing in the polls right now.