Popover message contains latex do not show it as math equation in kableExtra table

Question

Here I give a reproducible example in RMarkdown.

---
title: "A reproducible example in rmarkdown"
output: html_document
---

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover(); 
});
</script>

```{r}
library(tidyverse)
library(kableExtra)

df = tibble(
  position = c("top", "bottom"),
  latex = c("$x=1$", "$x=2$"),
  pop = cell_spec(
    paste("Math", latex),
    popover = spec_popover(
      content = latex, 
      title = NULL,
      position = position
    )
  ),
) %>% 
  select(-latex)
df %>% kbl(escape = F)
```

The popover message shows the row latex code as $x=1$ and $x=2$, but not as latex math equation. How could one get the equations typeset as math equations?