Florida reported 377,035 in-person early voters after its first day, Monday, which set a record after its 2020 election turnout.
Election Day is two weeks away, and Florida is the third state to report record early turnout after North Carolina and Georgia. Early voting will continue through Nov. 2.
However, when it came to mail-in ballots, there were significantly fewer after the first day. Monday’s report included more than 1.3 million mail-in ballots. In 2020, there were 2.5 million.
Republican voters were the slight majority of early voters, with 40.5% of the ballots, just over 679,000. Another 39.1% were from Democratic voters, with 660,775 ballots. The remaining fifth of voters were outside either party.
Republican voters set a record for in-person voting with more than 202,000 ballots, almost double that of the Democratic voters, according to the Florida Republican Party. However, Democratic voters beat Republicans by about 120,000 mail-in ballots.
“People will crawl over broken glass to vote for President Trump in November,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) wrote on X. “We’ve already seen excellent turnout in Florida and North Carolina in the areas devastated by the hurricane.”
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Similarly, in North Carolina, Republican voters accounted for 34.09% of more than 778,000 ballots cast after the first two days of early in-person voting.
More than 622,000 Georgia voters have turned in their ballots in the first two days of early voting.