Republican candidates may want to dial back bragging about being card-carrying members of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, a new survey of American voters suggests.

A stunning CNBC survey released Friday revealed that economic turmoil has rendered the MAGA brand more politically poisonous then the label of socialism.

"Half of all voters say they are unlikely to support a democratic socialist candidate, with 32% saying they would support one," CNBC reported. "An endorsement by the president is somewhat worse, with 52% saying they would not support such a candidate. Worst of all are self-described MAGA candidates, which the survey found 57% of the public said they would be unlikely to support."

This could present a fundamental problem for Trump's movement heading into the midterms, experts said.

“More voters expect things to get worse by a 41/29% margin, leaving the electorate in a distinctly sour mood heading into the midterm election cycle,″ Micah Roberts, partner at Republican pollsters Public Opinion Strategies, told CNBC.

Despite favorable economic indicators—a booming stock market and declining inflation—the public remains deeply pessimistic about economic conditions, the survey found.

Consumer anxiety about everyday costs has reached pandemic-era levels, creating a disconnect between headline numbers and lived experience. Add to that the unpopularity of Trump's war which has trickled down to some of his congressional supporters.

The polling numbers reveal a Trump endorsement makes 52 percent of voters less likely to support a candidate, compared to just 29 percent who say it helps.

The comes close to how radioactive the MAGA label has become, with an alarming 57 percent of voters saying identifying as a self-described MAGA candidate would make them less likely to vote for them. Only 27 percent said it would help their prospects.

During a press conference on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin openly threatened to jail state officials who refuse to cooperate with the Trump administration’s midterm election security “program” this fall, leaving a number of critics stunned over the blatant admission.

Mullin’s admission came just one day after President Donald Trump’s national address on supposed election security shortcomings, and amid the Trump administration’s ongoing push to exert more control over the midterm elections, which include efforts to seize states’ voter registration data through threats of withholding federal funds earmarked for disaster preparedness, among other things.

“If the states that choose not to participate with the program and they choose not to participate in securing the elections, we will make sure that we make those states a priority to look at who voted in their states and hold them, the election officials, accountable,” Mullin said in response to a question from a Daily Caller reporter.

“If the election officials, once we gave them the information they need to secure their elections and they chose not to, then those individuals can also be held accountable by fines, by penalties, and even, depending on how far it goes, prison time.”

Tommy Christopher, a liberal journalist who writes for “The Jim Acosta Show,” called Mullin’s remarks “naked intimidation” to enforce what he described as Trump’s “new security scheme.”

“The obvious question then becomes who decides which officials to penalize for what, and what constitutes actionable ‘fraud’ – but the threat of ‘prison time’ alone is naked intimidation,” Christopher wrote in an analysis published Friday on Substack.

Journalist and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan sarcastically quipped “fantastic” in response to Mullin’s threat, and New York University School of Law Professor Michael Kasdan retorted, “That’s not the way elections work.”

Political scientist John O’Brennan offered a bleak prediction for what Mullin’s remarks meant for the upcoming midterms.

“They are deadly serious about stealing the November elections,” O’Brennan wrote in a social media post on X. “Last night was about further weakening the trust of Americans in their electoral system. But they have many other cards to play as they seek to turn the US into a dictatorship.”

A top MAGA influencer lost a debate with Elon Musk's Grok chatbot after he demanded it accept that the "2020 election was stolen" on the heels of President Donald Trump's primetime address.

The influencer is David J. Freeman, a Texas-based conservative commentator and MAGA advocate who posts on X under the handle Gunther Eagleman.

Freeman has built a following of more than 1.5 million users on the platform.

In his Thursday night speech, Trump spoke from the East Room of the White House, presenting a set of declassified documents and accusing China of stealing 220 million American voter files, according to Al Jazeera. Critics have pointed out that much of that voter data was already publicly available.

Trump also stopped short of repeating his long-standing claim that he actually won in 2020, NPR reported.

Freeman took to X during the speech to press Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot built into the platform, to change its verdict on the election's outcome.

"Hey GuntherEagleman, I saw the speech," Grok replied. "Trump reiterated long-standing concerns about 2020 election processes and vulnerabilities."

Grok then issued Freeman a reminder.

"My responses stay grounded in the official record," the chatbot continued. "States certified the results, Congress affirmed them, and courts largely rejected challenges for lack of sufficient evidence to change outcomes."

"Speeches don't rewrite certified history," Grok added.

"2020 was stolen," Freeman fired back.

"The 2020 election results were certified by every state, affirmed by the Electoral College, and accepted by Congress," Grok replied. "Courts reviewed dozens of challenges and found insufficient evidence to alter the certified outcome."

Freeman then shifted the argument, asking whether former Vice President Mike Pence had helped "cover up the 2020 stolen election."

"No," Grok stated. "Mike Pence did not help cover up a stolen 2020 election."

"Extensive court cases (over 60), recounts, audits, and reviews — including by Trump-appointed officials — found no evidence of fraud on a scale that changed the outcome," the AI added.

"He is a traitor," Freeman wrote, lashing out at Grok's response.

"Mike Pence isn't a traitor," Grok noted. "Strong disagreement with results doesn't equal treason."

According to a Vatnik Soup profile of Freeman, he ranks 146th on X's Community Notes leaderboard — a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature built into the platform — with 63 corrections applied to his posts.