AOC’s Party Now: 202 House Democrats Were Asked to Sign ‘We Are Capitalists, Not Socialists’ — Only 10 Did

The pledge numbers also arrive alongside a data point that Republicans should be clipping and distributing immediately: the polls dramatically overstated DSA performance in this week’s primaries. El-Sayed was up 12% in polling and won by 1%. Francesca Hong was up 22% and lost by 1%. The DSA’s actual coalition is significantly smaller than their polling suggests — which means that in general elections, where the electorate is substantially less ideologically extreme than Democratic primary voters, the gap between their apparent strength and their actual strength will be even larger.

This is the single most important piece of electoral data in the entire 2026 cycle for Republicans to understand. The left looks stronger than it is. Its candidates win primaries by thin margins in primary electorates that oversample their coalition. The general election is a different universe.