The survey's findings come as democratic socialist candidates win Democratic primaries following the 2025 election of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Key Points

More voters would be more likely to support a democratic socialist candidate than a Make America Great Again supporter or a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, the CNBC All-America Economic Survey found.

The findings may allay concerns of centrist Democrats, who have been worried about the leftward shift of primary winners in 2026.

The poll indicates that even with a number of self-described democratic socialists on the ballot, Democrats will have the upper hand heading into November’s midterm election, which is widely viewed as a referendum on Trump.

Capitalism remains more popular than socialism in the U.S., the poll found, but has declined in public sentiment in recent years as socialism has gained.

  • cmbabul@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    We probably don’t need to dissect the 2016 election too much further as it’s been done to death

    But! It’s pretty clear in hindsight that it was a populist election with growing resentment towards the status quo was starting to crescendo. Sanders would’ve crushed Trump and we’d all be in at least much less chaotic world

    Running Hilary Clinton, one of the major architects of the DNCs neoliberal shift following Reagan, will be considered on of the major historical blunders ever and the catalyzing incident behind the collapse of the American hegemony.