The ranks of double haters — voters who say they don’t like either major presidential candidate — have reached an all-time high and make up a quarter of the electorate, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center.
That’s almost twice as many as at this point in 2020.
Biden and Trump measure these disillusioned voters in battleground states roughly evenly, with Biden winning 25 percent to Trump’s 22 percent, according to a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll from May.
But the biggest threat to Biden and Trump is that voters turned off by them will simply stay home — or find refuge with an independent candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who scores 24% among such voters in the Bloomberg/Morning Consult. investigation.
The other third-party candidates get a total of 12 percent.
Growing political polarization is the cause of unpopularity. Pew’s analysis found that presidential candidates are only slightly less popular within their own party than they were three decades ago, but voters in the opposing party are much more negative.
