Election year finds GOP voter registrations leading Dems on Treasure Coast at new highs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : Trump won it in both 2016 and 2020.
56% : In both 2016 and 2020, there were more registered Democrats than Republicans statewide, but Trump won the state both years.
25% : That increase narrowed the gap between the two from nearly 30,000 to less than 20,000.Republicans would not have a lead of more than 30,000 -- where it had been in 2006 before Obama's successful primary and general election campaigns -- again until 2016, when a candidate from their own party was energizing and registering new voters: Donald Trump.
12% : Since 1996, St. Lucie voted for Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Obama, while Martin and Indian River went for Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney.

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