Republicans in Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania have narrowed the voter registration gap, a shift that could carry President Donald Trump to a second term, reports The New York Times.
“The tremendous voter registration gain by the Republicans is the secret weapon that will make the difference for the Republicans in 2020,” Dee Stewart, a Republican political consultant in North Carolina, told the Times.
In Florida, Republicans have cut the voter registration gap with Democrats to a historic low, giving the GOP a boost during early voting. Trump won the Sunshine State by less than 113,000 votes in 2016.
Republicans now trail Democrats by just 134,242 registered voters, down from 327,483 in 2016, in the state, according to the Florida secretary of state’s office. In Pennsylvania, the GOP has added 174,000 voters since 2016, while Democrats lost 31,000.
North Carolina has lost more Democrat voters since 2016 – 136,000 – while Republicans gained 100,000.
Trump won North Carolina by 173,000 votes in 2016.
The Trump campaign credits its ground operation for the boost – in September it boasted of knocking on a million doors a week.
"While you might hear our opponent spend a lot of time talking about the millions of door knocks or attempts that they're making week to week, those metrics actually don't have any impact on reaching voters," Biden's campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillon, told reporters, according to NPR. "Our metric of success, the numbers we look at and use, are conversations."
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