Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he plans to vote early this 2024 cycle, changing his strategy from voting on Election Day in the past.
With less than two weeks left until Nov. 5, some 15 million ballots are already in nationwide. Despite Trump’s previous criticisms of voting in any other matter than in person the day of, Trump implied he would be voting sooner than later.
“Yeah, I’m very mixed on it. I mean, I’m OK with the Tuesday voting, which they like doing — Republicans like. And I’m also I say the main thing I say is vote,” Trump said on Fox News Radio’s The Brian Kilmeade Show Wednesday. “But ideally, I guess a lot of people would like to see early voting, you know, where you stand a little bit, and I’m, I’m OK either way, Brian, really. I really am.”
Half of the states, representing roughly 7.3 million ballots so far, have also published demographics. Republicans were among 32.5% of these ballots, while voters that belong to either no party or a minor party were 21.2%.
In the swing state of North Carolina, for example, the major parties were much more even, with 35.3% Democratic early voters, 33.25% Republican, and 31.5% from neither party. According to Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, Democrats typically beat out Republicans 80 to 20 in early voting.
Arizona, which flipped from Trump to President Joe Biden in 2020, is reporting more Republican early voters than Democratic voters, with a difference of almost 8%. Voters that belong to neither party made up about a fifth as of Wednesday.
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In Trump’s home state of Florida, Republican voters set a record for in-person voting with more than 202,000 ballots cast on the first day, 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.
By the second day, early Republican voters still outnumbered Democratic voters by about 100,000 ballots, which were a mix of in-person and mail-in.