More than 50m Americans cast ballots in early voting with three days to go before midterms
Summary
More than 50.5 million Americans had cast early ballots by Saturday morning, nearly 5 million more than the total early vote in the 2022 midterms. The election will decide control of Congress, with closely contested Senate races in several states and early voting up in a number of battlegrounds.Key Facts
- University of Florida data counted more than 50.5 million early votes nationwide by Saturday morning.
- The total was nearly 5 million above the number of early votes cast in the 2022 midterms.
- Among states that report party registration for early voters, 10.7 million registered Democrats and 7.8 million registered Republicans had voted.
- More than 7 million people had voted early in Texas, about 1.5 million more than the state’s 2022 midterm early-vote total.
- In Harris County, Texas, 862,700 people had voted by Wednesday, compared with 564,500 at the same point in 2022.
- Early voting was up from 2022 by 83% in South Carolina, 34% in Kansas, 44% in Maine and 32% in Michigan, according to the Associated Press.
- Republicans held a 53–47 majority in the Senate going into the election, and Democrats were seeking to win control of the chamber.
- Donald Trump held a rally in Texas earlier in the week and a rally in Florida on Friday as he campaigned for Republican candidates.
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