Former President Donald Trump isn’t sure if a third-party candidate will drive a wedge between him and victory in November, but Republicans adjacent to him are.

That’s a change to the general belief that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump called “extremely liberal,” has only served to siphon votes away from Democrats after a lifelong association with the party.

“They say he hurts Biden. I’m not sure that that’s true, and I think he probably hurts [us] both,” Trump said of Kennedy in a radio interview Monday night. “But he might hurt Biden a little bit more, you don’t know.”

A recent NBC News poll showed strong support for Kennedy among third-party candidates, and that support hurts Trump in a five-way race. More Trump voters favored Kennedy than President Joe Biden voters, and that shifts the vote to a 2-point Biden advantage.

In a head-to-head race, Trump still has a 2-point advantage over Biden. 

Trump’s disadvantage in a five-way race may be in part due to a vigorous Democratic campaign to distance its voters from Kennedy, including a billboard in Scottsdale, Arizona, calling Kennedy a “spoiler for Trump.”

The poll was also before Kennedy’s own family endorsed Biden, driving him further away from Democrats while likely having little effect among Republican voters.

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“It’s clear that the DNC and the Biden campaign are putting tremendous amounts of energy and effort into discrediting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and reminding voters of [Biden’s] support from the [bulk of the] Kennedy family,” Alice Stewart, a Republican consultant, told Politico. “It would be wise for the [Republican National Committee] to do what they can to make sure people understand how Trump would be a better president in his policies over RFK Jr. and Biden.”

A Republican strategist also told Politico that Kennedy “has a lot of interesting if not conspiratorial ideas, from vaccines to autism to a wide range of fringe ideas that certainly play more to the right than to the left.”