The political shift to the right continues to pay dividends for the Republican Party as an important swing state shows another takeover by the Party.
The state of Nevada, for the first time since 2007, now has more registered Republican voters than it does Democrats.
The advantage is minimal as of January, with 187 more Republicans registered than Democrats, as a report released by the Nevada Secretary of State’s office on Tuesday showed. But the fact that there is an advantage at all is astounding.
“This historic achievement is a testament to the hard work, dedication, and unwavering commitment of Republicans across our great state,” the Nevada Republican Party said of the news.
President Donald Trump took the state by a comfortable margin of 3.1 percent in the November election against former Vice President Kamala Harris, and the shift in registration shows Nevada has become a solid purple state.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo is a Republican and both Senators from the state, Sens. Catherine Cortez-Masto and Jacky Rosen, who narrowly won their reelections, are Democrats.
And Nevada is not the only state seeing gains for the Republicans.
The traditionally solidly blue state of New Jersey has seen 10,000 new Republican voters in the month of January as the Democrats lost 2,000.
President Trump came very close to winning the Garden State in November, as Harris only took it by a razor-thin margin.
“People switch the way they vote, then they switch their registrations. And you think about Nevada and New Jersey, those are two states that saw pretty significant shifts towards the Republicans in November,” University of Pennsylvania political science professor Marc Meredith told The Hill.
In October, according to data from Michael Pruser of the Decision Desk, Republicans have surpassed their Democratic opponents in securing new voter registrations in key swing states.
In September, Republicans added 337,107 new voters across 25 states, compared to 210,711 new Democrats and 302,944 other new voters, Just the News reported, citing the data.
In Pennsylvania, new Republican registrations nearly doubled those of Democrats, with the GOP gaining 60,710 voters compared to 35,864 for the rival party. There were also 32,698 new voters from other registrations.
In North Carolina, the GOP gained 19,434 new voters, while Democrats added 11,742. There were 45,274 other registrations.
Additionally, in Florida, the GOP continued its gains, nearly doubling the Democratic totals with 60,436 new voters, while Democrats registered 36,116 new voters and 48,919 others.
Republicans also saw a modest increase in deep-blue California, gaining 51,636 new voters compared to the Democrats’ 37,814. The state recorded 49,003 new voters of other affiliations during that month.
The increase in GOP voter registrations is just one of many victories for the president since he took back the White House.
Trump made an important announcement last week, touting the return of some American hostages that were being held in Venezuela and more after a U.S. envoy visited the South American nation.
The president made the announcement on his Truth Social account, where he also shared the news that his administration had reached an agreement with Venezuela to repatriate its citizens, including gang members, who are illegally in the United States.
“It is so good to have the Venezuela Hostages back home and, very important to note, that Venezuela has agreed to receive, back into their Country, all Venezuela illegal aliens who were encamped in the U.S., including gang members of Tren de Aragua. Venezuela has further agreed to supply the transportation back,” the president said.
“We are in the process of removing record numbers of illegal aliens from all Countries, and all Countries have agreed to accept these illegal aliens back. Furthermore, record numbers of criminals are being removed from our Country, and the Border numbers are the strongest they have been since the First Term of the Trump Administration!” he said.
Trump’s envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, met with officials from the Maduro administration last week, CNN reported.
“We are wheels up and headed home with these six American citizens. They just spoke to President Trump, and they couldn’t stop thanking him,” Grenell said in a post on X with a photo he shared of himself with the former prisoners.
