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As New York City Mayor’s Democratic Candidate Zohran Mandani A new Fox News national survey shows that capitalism is more popular than socialism. Still, voters support increasing taxes on the rich.
Among other things, Mamdani, who calls herself a democratic socialist, has promised to make New York City more affordable by taxing its elite residents.
If this would strengthen the country’s social plans (73% support raising taxes to achieve this), and spread wealth to those who are unlucky (64%) (64%). They are less inclined to increase taxes on the rich, so no one becomes too rich” (47% support and 52% objection).
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To varying degrees, most Democrats (89%), Republicans (56%) and independents (78%) support increased taxes on the wealthy’s strengthening of social plans.
More than half of Republicans oppose taxing the rich to spread wealth and prevent anyone from becoming too rich, a goal that most Democrats and independents support.
Mamdani’s nationally favorable rating was underwater at 19 percentage points (18% benefit, 37% disadvantage), with the largest share of voters at 44%, never heard of him.
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Those who are most likely to view Mamdani positively are very liberals (44%) and Democrats (34%). Negative perspectives are driven to a large extent Republicans (They are most likely to be familiar with him), and more than half say they are not keen on him (54% disadvantage). Many Democrats (47%) and more than half of independents (55%) have never heard of him.
Despite the interest in absorbing the rich, two-thirds (65%) have negative views on socialism. This is the highest record in the 2019 Fox News survey.
socialismLike Mamdani, the most powerful supporters are very free people (53% favorable and are the only subgroups that support more than 50%) and democratic men (41%).
Although capitalism is still popular (its views twice as high as socialism), its 53% rating is 57% lower than its 2019 high.
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The biggest supporters of capitalism are Republican men (80% favorable), voters aged 65 and older (74%), very conservatives (71%) and those with graduate degrees (70%).
Among independents, women and Hispanic voters, doubts about capitalism are the highest. However, each group is more likely to support capitalism than double digits.
Most voters under the age of 30 consider socialism (56% disadvantage) and capitalism (61%) disadvantage.
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The Fox News survey, conducted September 6-9, 2025, was conducted under the guidance of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), which included interviews with a randomly selected 1,004 registered voter samples from the national voter archives. Respondents spoke with live interviewers (119) and mobile phones (638) after receiving the text, or completed the survey online (247). The sampling error of the results based on the complete sample is ±3 percentage points. The sampling error of the results in the subgroup is high. In addition to sampling errors, the wording and order of the problem also affects the results. Weights are often applied to age, race, education, and region variables to ensure that respondents’ demographics represent the registered voter population. Sources of developing weight goals include U.S. Community Survey, Fox News voter analysis, and voter file data.
