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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6082644" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-voter-turnout-republicans-trump-harris-7ef18c115c8e1e76210820e0146bc3a5[/URL]“The 2024 presidential election featured sky-high turnout, approaching the historic levels of the 2020 contest and contradicting long-held conventional political wisdom that Republicans struggle to win races in which many people vote.According to Associated Press elections data, more than 153 million ballots were cast in <a href="https://apnews.com/live/trump-harris-election-updates-11-5-2024" target="_blank">this year’s race</a> between Republican Donald Trump, now the president-elect, and Democrat Kamala Harris, the vice president, with hundreds of thousands of more still being tallied in slower-counting states <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-vote-count-house-f2fc180be874fe88d3944956ea929bc5" target="_blank">such as California</a>. When those ballots are fully tabulated, the number of votes will come even closer to the 158 million in the 2020 presidential contest, which was the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ap-votecast-2020-election-2024-election-biden-trump-harris-f8e35d86efcea67c1eb6713b62c35546" target="_blank">highest turnout election</a> since women were given the right to vote more than a century ago.“Trump is great for voter turnout in both parties,” said Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Tufts University.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6082644, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-voter-turnout-republicans-trump-harris-7ef18c115c8e1e76210820e0146bc3a5[/URL] “The 2024 presidential election featured sky-high turnout, approaching the historic levels of the 2020 contest and contradicting long-held conventional political wisdom that Republicans struggle to win races in which many people vote. According to Associated Press elections data, more than 153 million ballots were cast in [URL='https://apnews.com/live/trump-harris-election-updates-11-5-2024']this year’s race[/URL] between Republican Donald Trump, now the president-elect, and Democrat Kamala Harris, the vice president, with hundreds of thousands of more still being tallied in slower-counting states [URL='https://apnews.com/article/california-vote-count-house-f2fc180be874fe88d3944956ea929bc5']such as California[/URL]. When those ballots are fully tabulated, the number of votes will come even closer to the 158 million in the 2020 presidential contest, which was the [URL='https://apnews.com/article/ap-votecast-2020-election-2024-election-biden-trump-harris-f8e35d86efcea67c1eb6713b62c35546']highest turnout election[/URL] since women were given the right to vote more than a century ago. “Trump is great for voter turnout in both parties,” said Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Tufts University.” [/QUOTE]

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