Toplines - Heartland Socialism August 2025
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Survey of 1,201 18-39
US Likely Voters
Conducted August 26-27, 2025 by Rasmussen Reports and
StoppingSocialism.com
1.
Trump Approval
24% Strongly approve
24% Somewhat approve
13% Somewhat
disapprove
37% Strongly
disapprove
2% Not sure
2.
In the 2024 presidential election, who did you
vote for, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump or some other candidate? Or did you not
vote in the 2024 presidential election?
45% Harris
41% Trump
7% Other
6% Didn't vote
1% Not sure
3.
If the Democratic Party's presidential
primaries were held today, and the candidates were Kamala Harris,
Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Gavin Newsom, and Zohran Mamdani who
would you vote for?
36% Harris
9% Ocasio-Cortez
16% Sanders
9% Newsom
4% Mamdani
6% Some other candidate
11% Wouldn't vote
8% Not sure
4.
Do you believe the United States is a
fundamentally good, evil, or morally mixed country?
28% Fundamentally good
17% Fundamentally evil
50% Mixed
5% Not sure
5.
Do you agree or disagree with this statement:
Major Industries like health care, energy, and big tech should be nationalized
to give more control and equity to the people?
39% Strongly agree
37% Somewhat agree
12% Somewhat disagree
5% Strongly disagree
7% Not sure
6.
The next presidential election is in 2028.
Would you like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028
presidential election?
53% Yes
27% No
20% Not sure
Answered by the 53% who would like to see a democratic
socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election:
7.
Among the following options, which best
describes the biggest reason you would like to see a democratic socialist
candidate win the 2028 presidential election?
31% Housing costs are
too high
12% Taxes are too low
for corporations
11% Taxes are too low
for wealthy individuals
8% Want single-payer health care system
17% The economy
unfairly benefits older, wealthier Americans
15% The economy
unfairly benefits large corporations
5% Some other reason
2% Not sure
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage
points with a 95% level of confidence
