Because of me, the Republican Party has taken in millions of new voters, a record. If they are not careful, they will all leave. Sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2016
Donald Trump loves to say on the campaign trail that he’s brought in “millions of new voters” to the Republican party, but according to a new analysis by Politico’s Shane Goldmacher that’s just not true:
.@realDonaldTrump is not expanding the GOP, according to a @ShaneGoldmacher analysis https://t.co/eiJaurXLCN
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) May 17, 2016
An excerpt:
While Trump’s insurgent candidacy has spurred record-setting Republican primary turnout in state after state, the early statistics show that the vast majority of those voters aren’t actually new to voting or to the Republican Party, but rather they are reliable past voters in general elections. They are only casting ballots in a Republican primary for the first time.
It is a distinction with profound consequences for the fall campaign.
If Trump isn’t bringing the promised wave of new voters into the GOP, it’s far less likely the Manhattan businessman can transform a 2016 Electoral College map that begins tilted against the Republican Party. And whether Trump’s voters are truly new is a question of urgent interest both to GOP operatives and Hillary Clinton and her allies, who have dispatched their top analytics experts to find the answer.
Now we find out this out?
cc: All y'all "Donald Trump is Not Expanding the GOP" https://t.co/6OlNJ0w8u1
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 17, 2016
Trump brought out infrequent primary voters…but these folks were already general election voters. https://t.co/IdRiurFpxy
— Kristen Soltis Anderson (@KSoltisAnderson) May 17, 2016
One of the most significant stories of 2016. Data show Donald Trump is NOT Expanding the GOP https://t.co/siL557cylb pic.twitter.com/ySgSmlDNVz
— Kristin Roberts (@KLR_Editor) May 17, 2016
Read the whole thing here.
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