Republicans cut into Democrats' early voting edge. What it means for the race.

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58% : Trump during a campaign rally Wednesday in Duluth, Georgia, boasted about the critical swing state's record-setting early-vote numbers, declaring "people have never seen anything like it."
51% : "We are far outperforming in our share of the early vote relative to two or four years ago across all battleground states," Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign's national press secretary, said in a statement, adding that Trump is "well-positioned for victory on November 5."The Harris campaign downplayed the Republicans' early-voting gains, pointing to the surge in Democratic early voting during the 2020 pandemic and the new emphasis Trump has placed on early voting this year.
51% : A USA Today/Suffolk University poll, taken October 14 to 18, found Harris leads Trump among those who have already voted, 63%-34%.
50% : "Instead, Trump is no longer openly deriding early voting like he did in 2020, so more of his core supporters are choosing to utilize it now.
41% : "This time around, it looks as though Trump has given his supporters a green light to vote in-person early," said Michael McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida, who oversees the Election Lab.
37% : Trump and Republicans dominated the Election Day vote in 2020, but not by enough to hold onto the White House for a second consecutive term.
36% : Likely voters who said they plan to wait until Election Day to vote prefer Trump, 52%-35%.McDonald, head of the Election Lab, said while the Trump campaign has a reason to be pleased with Republicans' early vote, it's still too early in the early-voting period to draw firm conclusions.
17% : "Ahead of the 2020 election, Trump repeatedly assailed early mail-in voting with false accusations about the legitimacy of mail-in ballots.

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