According to a Daily Caller report, Democrat voter registrations in three critical battleground states have dropped since the 2020 presidential election.

The outlet reports, citing the most recent state records, that Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania all currently have fewer registered Democrat voters than in late 2020.

Daily Caller explained:

Pennsylvania has lost 336,269 registered Democrats since November 3, 2020, according to state election data. Democrats currently have a less than 400,000 voter registration advantage over the GOP, compared to the party’s previous 685,818 lead.

In North Carolina, 212,084 Democratic voters left the party between late December 2020 and early April 2024, state election data shows. There is now a gap of only 170,943 voters between the state Democrats and the GOP, while the party used to have a 373,622 margin.

Since December 2020, Democrats in Nevada have seen a drop in 27,757 registered voters, according to state election data. The party now holds a 55,116-voter lead over Republicans in the swing state, compared to its 2020 advantage of 96,875 Democrats.

Less than 200,000 voters combined decided the presidential races in these three battleground states last cycle. Biden won by 2.4 and 1.2 points in Nevada and Pennsylvania, respectively, while Trump secured North Carolina by 1.3 points.

Jon McHenry, GOP polling analyst and vice president at North Star Opinion Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation: “The changes in party registration are reflective of what we’re seeing in the polling numbers in swing states: President Biden has lost some ground to former President Trump, but the races are still tight.”

According to the most recent RealClearPolitics polling averages, Trump leads Biden by 4.0% in North Carolina.

Trump leads Biden in Nevada by 3.2%.

Biden has a slim 0.1% lead in Pennsylvania.

“While voters have left the Democratic party, they still haven’t moved all the way to the Republican Party,” McHenry told the outlet.

State data also showed declines in Republican voter registration in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

All three battleground states showed increases in independent or non-partisan voters, the report states.

Thus, securing independent voter support will be more important in Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

According to CNN, Trump and Biden remain locked in a tight race with the 2024 presidential election less than seven months away.

Per CNN:

Donald Trump and Joe Biden remain locked in a close race for the presidency, according to a new poll from the New York Times and Siena College, which finds registered voters nationwide splitting 46% for Trump to 45% for Biden with no clear leader in the contest.

That’s a tighter race compared with the last Times/Siena survey in late-February, when Trump led by 5 points, but is in line with the current CNN Poll of Polls average, which shows 48% supporting each candidate with the new poll incorporated. At the time of the last Times/Siena poll, the Poll of Polls averaged 48% Trump to 46% Biden, suggesting a narrower shift in overall views of the race since early March compared with the change in this specific poll.

The survey finds that how the public views the state of the country remain largely unchanged: Most voters still say the US is heading in the wrong direction (64%), Biden’s approval rating remains deeply negative (38% approve and 59% disapprove), and ratings of the economy are far more bad than good (79% rate economic conditions as only fair or poor).

The polling comes as Biden prepares a campaign swing through battleground Pennsylvania while he looks to draw an economic contrast with Trump, zeroing in on his plans to raise taxes for the wealthiest Americans and corporations. His team has emphasized what they see as bright spots in the economy, including low unemployment, wage gains and an overall downward trend in inflation from its highest point earlier in the administration.

The former president, meanwhile, has also leaned into his economic plans on the campaign trail. Trump told a crowd at a recent fundraiser in Florida – at which he raised $50.5 million – that one of his core issues for a second term would be extending the sweeping tax cuts that congressional Republicans approved in 2017.

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