{"id":2644323,"date":"2026-08-13T10:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voters-prefer-socialist-over-maga-candidate-in-2028-matchup-poll\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:49:19","slug":"voters-prefer-socialist-over-maga-candidate-in-2028-matchup-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voters-prefer-socialist-over-maga-candidate-in-2028-matchup-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters prefer socialist over MAGA candidate in 2028 matchup: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvoters-prefer-socialist-over-maga-candidate-in-2028-matchup-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2644323&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>recent polling indicates that a socialist candidate is favored over a MAGA candidate in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-leads-newsom-in-head-to-head-2028-matchup-respected-pollster\/\" title=\"Vance Leads Newsom in Head-To-Head ...: Respected Pollster\">hypothetical 2028 presidential matchup<\/a>, with 55% of respondents supporting the socialist compared to 33% for the MAGA candidate. Independence voters show a significant preference for socialism over MAGA by more than 48% to 18%. Men tend to support the socialist candidate over Trump\u2019s MAGA candidate, and among MAGA supporters with young children, the socialist candidate is nearly tied with the MAGA candidate. The survey suggests that despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-pete-buttigieg-a-political-savior-for-michigan-democrats-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Is Pete Buttigieg a political savior for Michigan Democrats? - Washington Examiner\">recent political setbacks<\/a>, progressive leftist candidates continue to have substantial electoral appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a stronger lead is observed for an establishment Democrat over the MAGA candidate, with 50% favoring the Democrat versus 32% for MAGA. The socialist candidate only narrowly leads the establishment Republican by 3%, while the Democrat leads the Republican by 9%. A sizable portion of voters remain undecided,especially among independents,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/southern-ca-school-district-under-attack-for-parental-notification-policies-crt-ban\/\" title=\"Southern CA School District Faces Criticism Over Parental Notification Policies, CRT Ban\">indicating potential shifts<\/a> before the 2028 election.<\/p>\n<p>Political analyst Jeremy Zogby notes that the \u201cSocialist\u201d label does not appear to deter voters when competing against a MAGA candidate,and that mainstream Democrats currently have a broader advantage over MAGA contenders. Despite these trends,President Trump has not endorsed a candidate for 2028,and experts suggest that MAGA will need to focus on broadening its appeal and addressing key issues to regain support,particularly among diverse voter groups who shifted away from Trump.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New polling released this week suggests that a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/socialists\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"3282\">socialist<\/a> candidate would defeat a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/make-america-great-again\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"3396\">Make America Great Again<\/a> candidate in a hypothetical 2028 presidential matchup, a move that implies the reach of progressive leftists isn\u2019t abating despite recent setbacks in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2028-elections\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"11676\">2028 election<\/a> for president were held today, 55% of respondents said they would vote for the socialist candidate, compared to 33% who said they would vote for the MAGA candidate, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/polls\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"305\">poll<\/a> released by the independent pollster Jeremy Zogby. Another 22% said they were undecided.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/4684378\/voters-prefer-socialism-over-maga-2028-jeremy-zogby-poll\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Voters prefer socialist over MAGA candidate in 2028 matchup: Poll<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/4683437\/nancy-pelosi-biden-public-cognitive-tests-aoc-newsom-praise\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Pelosi says she urged Biden to publicize cognitive tests, praises AOC and Newsom<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/4682228\/aoc-2028-woke-1-socialist-democrats\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>AOC, 2028, and the coming of \u2018Woke 2\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Independent voters selected the socialist over the MAGA Republican by more than 48% to 18%, a 30-percentage-point difference, while 41% of unaffiliated voters are undecided.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Men, a group President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> won by 12 points in the 2024 election according to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2024\/exit-polls\/national-results\/general\/president\/0\">exit polling<\/a>, were more likely to choose the socialist at 42% compared to the MAGA candidate at 36%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hypothetical socialist candidate was statistically tied with the MAGA Republican, 41.6%-41.1%, among MAGA parents with young children, some of Trump\u2019s most faithful supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results show \u201cthe Socialist label in the moment does not appear to turn off the electorate when pitted against a MAGA candidate,\u201d Zogby wrote in his <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/jeremyzogby.substack.com\/p\/the-2028-election-war-game-including?r=12vcrm&#038;utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&#038;triedRedirect=true\">analysis of the poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zogby\u2019s survey also showed an establishment Democrat besting a MAGA candidate in 2028 by a wider lead than the socialist. If the 2028 election for president were held today,<em> <\/em>50% would vote for the establishment Democrat, and 32% would vote for the MAGA Republican, with 18% undecided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe MAGA candidate fares worse against an Establishment Democrat, our first signal indicating the electorate longs for candidates closer to the norm of politics,\u201d Zogby writes. \u201cIn pure numbers terminology, whereas the Socialist leads MAGA by 12 percentage points, the Establishment Democrat leads MAGA by 18 percentage points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An establishment Republican fares better than a MAGA candidate in matchups against both a socialist and an establishment Democrat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The socialist wins by just 3% over the establishment Republican, 42% to 39%, while an establishment Democrat pulls 46% to the establishment Republican\u2019s 37%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With two more years until the presidential election, there remains plenty of time to persuade undecided and independent voters. In every case polled, about one-fifth of voters were undecided, the survey showed, and, focusing on the independent vote, approximately 4 of 10 unaffiliated voters were undecided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4685875\/rahm-emanuel-blasts-socialist-candidates-making-races-ivy-league-seminar\/\">RAHM EMANUEL BLASTS SOCIALIST CANDIDATES FOR MAKING RACES \u2018AN IVY LEAGUE SEMINAR\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a MAGA successor to Trump still has work to do, as the president remains committed to not endorsing in the 2028 race yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf MAGA is to overcome the Democratic Party, or even the Democratic Socialists, they\u2019ll need to provide an even wider blanket of security issues that Americans were juggling leading up to 2024,\u201d wrote Zogby. \u201cThe very circumstances that got Donald Trump elected for a second term with a coalition that included Hispanics, the under 30 vote, first time voters, and beyond. Today, those groups and others have abandoned the President. Winning them back will require more than effective messaging, and particularly for those undecided.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll shows socialist beats MAGA in 2028 race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2644324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2282802516.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11331,6571,5656,12428],"class_list":["post-2644323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-11331","tag-elections","tag-maga","tag-socialism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2282802516.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644327,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644323\/revisions\/2644327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}