Democrats lead Republicans in new voter registrations in four battleground states
By Max Greenwood - 08/31/20 04:43 PM EDT
Democrats are outpacing Republicans in new voter registrations in four key battleground states, according to figures from the Democratic data firm TargetSmart.
Arizona, Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania have collectively added millions of new voters to their roles since 2016. President Trump carried each of those states in the presidential election four years ago. But more of the new voters in those four battlegrounds are registering as Democrats than as Republicans, and many of them are younger, TargetSmart data shows.
The Democrats’ advantage in new voter registrations was first reported on Sunday by NBC News.
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In Pennsylvania, some 961,106 new voters have registered since the 2016 presidential election. A plurality of those new voters – just under 45 percent – have registered as Democrats, while another 21 percent are unaffiliated with a party. Republican registrants, meanwhile, make up about 31 percent of new voters in the state.
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