Voters make selections at their voting booths inside an early voting site on Oct. 17, 2024 in Hendersonville, North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)
Earlier this year, ahead of the slate of elections that took place in November that saw Democratic Party wins virtually across the board, including multiple candidates who ran under the ‘socialist’ banner, a New York Times analysis found that between 2020 and 2024 Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters across 30 different states that keep track of voter registration data. Meanwhile, the analysis found that Republicans gained about 2.4 million. In total, this amounted to a deficit for the Democratic Party of 4.5 million registered voters just over the last four years.
In North Carolina, specifically, between 2005 and 2015, the difference in the number of registered Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina remained mostly steady, with a difference of about 670,000 give or take in 2005 and 2015, respectively. But, beginning in 2015, that deficit started to shrink.
Five years later, in 2020, the difference was a little under 380,000 in favor of Democrats, before their lead shrunk to just 1,216, according to the North Carolina Board of Elections' latest voter roll records.
"The reality is that bad Democrat policies coming out of Washington are driving voters away from the party here at home," former Republican National Committee chairman and North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley said.
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"Insane policies supported by Roy Cooper and pushed by DC Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are completely out of step with North Carolinians," he said. "Democrats couldn’t win Senate races here even when they had a cash advantage and a huge voter-registration edge. Now they’ve lost that registration advantage too, and voters are making it clear they’re done with failed Democrat leadership."
New York City residents who attended the "No Kings" rally in Times Square on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, were asked if they are registered to vote. (Fox News Digital/Deirdre Heavey)
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But according to Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters, North Carolina "is undergoing a historic shift" and Democrats' advantage has "crumbled."
"Voters rejected Kamala Harris last year, and they’re continuing that trend as they turn away from the failed policies of Roy Cooper and Josh Stein," Gruters said.
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