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A new poll demonstrates that voters are more likely to support a self-described democratic socialist candidate for office than someone who calls themselves a supporter of the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) Trump-endorsed political movement.

The CNBC survey, published last week, asked respondents to say whether they’d be more or less supportive of candidates with those labels. Thirty-two percent of voters said they’d be more likely to back a person calling themselves a democratic socialist.

Conversely, 27 percent said the same thing when the candidate in question calls themselves a MAGA-backer, while only 29 percent said they’d be more likely to back a candidate who was directly endorsed by President Donald Trump.

The poll’s results indicate that democratic socialism is presently more popular in the U.S. than the president’s MAGA movement.

The poll shows that democratic socialists still face challenges in courting voters, with 50 percent of respondents saying they would be less likely to support a candidate who identifies as one. But the numbers suggest that democratic socialist candidates may nonetheless have better prospects in a general election than Republicans endorsed by Trump, as 52 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to vote for a Trump-endorsed candidate, while 57 percent said the same of a self-described MAGA candidate.

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