Big Voter Turnout This Year Benefited Republicans, Contradicting Conventional Political Wisdom

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : "Trump is great for voter turnout in both parties," said Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Tufts University.
70% : Trump got more.
64% : The problem for Democrats is that Trump did better in the battlegrounds than four years ago."The Harris campaign did a pretty good job getting voters out who wouldn't have come out," said Tom Bonier, a Democratic data analyst.
64% : "We saw that Trump has this amazing reservoir of low-propensity conservatives who needed a little coaxing," Kolvet said in an interview Friday.
60% : Meanwhile, the number of votes cast topped those in 2020 in the battleground states of Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all of which Trump won.
59% : He voted for Trump this year.
54% : "Those Trump turnout victories included first-time voter Jasmine Perez, 26, who voted for Trump at the Las Vegas Raiders stadium.
41% : Voting alongside her was Diego Zubek, 27, who voted for Trump in 2016 but didn't vote in 2020 because he figured Trump would win easily.
40% : The former president's victory in both the Electoral College and popular vote -- Trump currently leads Harris by nearly 3 million votes nationwide -- also contradicts the belief in politics that Democrats, not Republicans, benefit from high-turnout elections.
30% : Harris even met or topped Biden's vote totals in Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin, and turnout has far eclipsed that of the 2016 presidential election, when 135.6 million voters cast ballots in a race won by Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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