Yes, but
I took a look at his website, and the positions expressed there mostly do not look like they would attract MAGAts. Real conservatives, possibly, but not right-wing types.
Still bad news for Trump, it just means his pool to pull from is smaller. If Trump and Kennedy are splitting conservative voters of different ideology, that’s still good news for Biden. Biden just needs good turnout and enough people to not vote for Trump, whether they vote for Biden or Kennedy.
Im not convinced Trump will win all of Haley’s voters back either. Perhaps Haley has a small amount of true supporters who will follow her lead, but if even one in four Haley voters was a hard no to Trump, that’s an issue for him. Biden has not seemed to have a problem maintaining his share of democrat voters when compared to Trump, though its hard to glean too much from at the moment because republicans had higher turnout since they’re the challenger.
I’d like to see Trump and Kennedy begin ripping into each other.
We also have to factor the VP pick in. Trump is either going to get a MAGA freak who will regurgitate his racism and fascist views, or he will get a centrist lapdog who will forever be defending their decision to run with a criminal nimrod.
While we‘re at it, I think VP Harris has been low-key doing good work recently on the abortion rights debate. She needs to be out there more… she’s not nearly as disliked as Hillary and she’s effective. Virtually one moment on the debate stage got her temporary praise from cons (because she implied Biden supported racist policies) and caused Biden to pick her for VP. Her dislike is mostly from the right - for obvious reasons (and VPs generally aren’t all that well-liked by the other side), and I think dems just find her kind of milquetoast. But she can be incredibly effective in front of an audience.