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What does the surge in early voting mean for this midterm election?
The University of Florida Election Lab says early voting has topped 54 million ballots, signaling unusually high engagement before control of Congress is decided.
- President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Sunday and is scheduled to deliver a closing pitch today at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, less than 24 hours before polls open.
- Early voting has shattered records this year, with the University of Florida Election Lab reporting more than 54 million advance ballots cast, nearly 9 million more than in the previous midterms.
- Nationally, 43% of early votes came from registered Democrats and 32% from Republicans. Brookings Institution senior fellow Darrell West said, "Typically, people vote when they think their vote matters."
- Trump visited Kansas and Iowa, where the Cook Political Report considers Senate races "toss-ups." Historically, midterms challenge the president's party, and Republicans face difficulties maintaining control of both chambers.
- Voters will decide all 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats tomorrow. The Cook Political Report also predicts Senate races in Ohio, Alaska, and Maine could go either way.
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DOBLE LLAVE – At the time of the mid-term elections in the U.S., in which the U.S. power will renew the entire House of Representatives and one third of the Senate, in addition to electing state and local positions, more than 51 million Americans have already voted in the mid-term elections, according to the Florida University Election Laboratory's advance vote tracker, thus exceeding the 2022 election levels. According to data collected by the …
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