Poll: A sizeable chunk of Americans think neither party 'fights for people like you'
Both political parties have significant work to do to convince Americans that they are fighting for them, according to the new NBC News Stay Tuned Poll powered by SurveyMonkey, with Democrats struggling to rally their own base of supporters.
Both political parties have significant work to do to convince Americans that they are fighting for them, according to the new NBC News Stay Tuned Poll powered by SurveyMonkey, with Democrats struggling to rally their own base of supporters.
The poll finds a plurality of adults (38%) say neither political party fights for people like them, while 24% say the Republican Party fights for them, 23% say the same of the Democratic Party, and 15% say both parties. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.
The pessimism about the major parties comes after a 2024 election that saw a third-party hopeful, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., hit double-digits in some national polling before fading and eventually endorsing Donald Trump. And some big upcoming elections are set to have notable independent contenders, including the governor's race in Michigan, where Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is running as an independent.
The survey also finds some angst among the Democratic Party’s more liberal supporters. Among those who say they consider themselves progressives first (as opposed to considering themselves Democrats first), 38% agree that neither party fights for them, while just half say they think their party fights for people like them.
By contrast, among the adults who say they align more with the Make America Great Again movement than the Republican Party itself, only 23% say neither party fights for them, compared to 67% who say the Republican Party fights for them.
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