Trump's ground game shrinks voter registration gap in key battlegrounds
The campaign for former President Donald Trump said it is giving "maximum attention and resources" to its ground game in battleground states, and it's working.
In key battleground states where voters register by party, and where the margins in 2020 were razor-thin, Republicans have cut into Democrats’ voter registration advantage — in some cases by hundreds of thousands of registered voters.
During the 2020 election cycle in Pennsylvania, there were approximately 685,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. But going into Election Day 2024, that gap has been cut down significantly, with approximately 343,000 more Democratic voters than Republicans, according to the Trump campaign, which said it compiled the data from secretaries of state offices in Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina and Arizona.
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Similarly, in Nevada, there were 87,000 more Democratic voters in 2020 than Republicans. But going into Election Day 2024, there are just 19,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans.
North Carolina shows a similar shrinking gap for 2024, with just 126,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans, down from the 391,000 Democratic voters last cycle.
And in Arizona, by the end of July, there were 259,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats, doubling the GOP advantage since 2020.
"Everyone who will vote in this election has lived through both administrations, and President Trump wins the comparison easily over Kamala Harris," Trump campaign senior adviser Tim Murtaugh told Fox News Digital. "The election will be won by those who show up, and that’s where the ground game comes in, which has been a combined effort of