Democrats activate weeklong voter drive to offset critical registration losses
The party lost 2.1 million registered voters from 2020 to 2024 – while Republicans gained 2.4 millionThe Democrats are launching a weeklong bid to register voters nationwide, particularly in battleground House districts as their party grapples with increasing numbers of Americans registering as...
<p>The party lost 2.1 million registered voters from 2020 to 2024 – while Republicans gained 2.4 million</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats">Democrats</a> are launching a weeklong bid to register voters nationwide, particularly in battleground House districts as their party grapples with increasing numbers of Americans registering as Republicans.</p><p>The nationwide trends in party registration – detailed in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html">an article</a> published in August by the New York Times – heightened concern that the Democrats’ drubbing in the 2024 election was not the one-off result of a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/kamala-harris-memoir-joe-biden-election">chaotic presidential campaign</a> won by Donald Trump and the Republicans, but rather signs of a broader shift by voters away from Democrats.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/15/democrats-weeklong-voter-drive">Continue reading...</a>
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