New Jersey Republicans had a pretty big voter registration month in October, Save Jerseyans, out-registering Democrats in a state Republicans haven’t carried in a presidential election since 1988.
GOP recruits outnumbered Democrats by over 10,000:
R +16,945
D +6,015
U +44,484
You can call it a trend. The Democrat statewide edge across all 21 counties is still a formidable 906,299 registrants, but that’s down from well over one million at the end of President Trump’s first term in office.
And it’s not just New Jersey. Republicans have posted substantial gains on Democrats in key battleground states around the country including neighboring Pennsylvania, and they’re winning the early in-person vote almost everywhere (though still lagging, albeit by a less-than-2020 margin, among those voting by mail). In New Jersey, Republicans led by 13,000 on the machines heading into Halloween.
If Republicans continue to win the in-person vote through Election Day? And those indies break their way?
We could see the closest presidential race in the Garden State since 2004.
Stay tuned…
