Joe Biden owns a 3-point lead over Donald Trump head-to-head in the latest I&I/TIPP presidential election poll released Monday.
Biden leads Trump 43% to 40% in the survey, with another 18% responding either "other" or "not sure."
However, with the addition of third-party and independent candidates, Trump and Biden are tied at 38% apiece, according to the survey. Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes 11% of the vote in that scenario, with "not sure" remaining at 9%.
The inclusion of Kennedy siphons off 5 points from Biden, according to the poll results, thanks to 18% of independents saying they would vote for RFK Jr. Trump is first with 31% of the independent vote with Biden second at 29%, according to the poll's three-way results.
In the head-to-head, Biden gets 35% support from independents to Trump's 33%, according to the survey.
"To sum up, third-party and independent candidates cost Biden six percentage points of his overall independent vote support, compared to a loss of just two percentage points for Trump," read the survey's analysis.
"At the margins, this will have an impact on the election. Independents, overall, give 26% of their ballots to independent and third-party challengers, compared to Republicans, who give just 5% of their vote to the others," the analysis went on. "But 12% of Democrats say they'll vote for someone other than Biden or Trump, a serious weak spot."
Trump leads Biden by 0.3 points, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average updated Monday.
The I&I/TIPP poll surveyed 1,265 registered voters from April 3-5. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points.
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