The Democratic Party is facing major losses in registered voters across the country.
According to a report from The New York Times, the Democratic Party lost an estimated 2.1 million voters between 2020 and 2024 across 30 states, as well as the District of Columbia. Republicans, the data showed, gained 2.4 million voters.
States with a significant degree of voter shifts included Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. North Carolina Democrats, in particular, are ahead of the Republicans by less than 17,000. In Pennsylvania, Democrats only have a 53,505 advantage.
Michael Pruser, the director of data science for Decision Desk HQ, told the outlet, “I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ but there seems to be no end to this. There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year.”
The Times reported that party strategists say Democrats’ decline in registration is a “hidden-in-plain-sight crisis” that must be addressed before the 2028 election. “In 2018, Democrats accounted for 34 percent of new voter registrations nationwide, while Republicans were only 20 percent,” the report explained. “Yet by 2024, Republicans had overtaken Democrats among new registrants.”
Similarly, the Trump administration has begun efforts to reassess voter rolls. The Trump DOJ pledged to ensure that each state has clean voter rolls and will challenge efforts that aim to suppress election integrity. “We are attacking illegal race-based gerrymandering, and we are protecting ballot access for all Americans,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet declared.
