Conservative Groups Work Overtime To Hold Congress In 2026 Midterms
M.D. Kittle
President Donald Trump needed to pick up a combination of key battleground states to win the 2024 election. He won all seven.
No doubt his victory had something to do with a very unpopular opponent, Democratic Party stand-in candidate Kamala Harris. But Trump’s sweeping win was in large part driven by turning traditional Election Day Republicans out early, particularly voters suspicious of absentee and early voting. Convincing 2020-scarred Republicans to use the principal method Democrats used to beat Donald Trump was no easy feat. Convincing the former president to get on board with early voting may go down as one of the greatest sales jobs of all time.
But that’s exactly what happened. The numbers don’t lie.
‘Early Turnout is Breaking Records’A U.S. Election Assistance Commission report to Congress reviewed the 2024 election, including information from election offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories. The Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) 2024 Comprehensive Report tracks “data about the ways Americans vote and how elections are administered.”
As the report shows, swing states recorded significant gains in early in-person voting in November’s presidential election compared to 2020.
Corporate media outlets sounded surprised by the change of direction by the Trump campaign and MAGA voters.
“With former President Donald Trump’s encouragement, Republicans are voting early again, flocking to the polls for in-person voting ahead of Election Day and helping push the national number to nearly 19 million,” The Associated Press reported on Oct. 22. “The early turnout is breaking records in swing states such as Georgia and North Carolina.”
Indeed. The EAVS report shows early in-person voting in Georgia topped 3.76 million ballots, a surge of 71 percent from the 2020 presidential election in which Democrat Joe Biden claimed victory by winning all but one of the battleground states.
North Carolina saw a 73.4 percent increase, with more than 4.22 million voters casting ballots at polling sites before the election.
Wisconsin posted a 28.5 percent uptick in the category, Michigan saw 31.3 percent, and Nevada was up 36.6 percent. The Pennsylvania Department of State could not provide data because “in-person return of mail ballots is not explicitly tracked by the voter registration system,” the federal report notes.
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