Voter Turnout Drove GOP Gains in 2022 Midterms: Pew Report
Republican gains in the 2022 midterms were largely owed to an advantage the party achieved in voter turnout, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.
The report, published on July 12, found that “partisan differences in turnout—rather than vote switching between parties—account for most of the Republican gains in voting for the House last year.”
Pew also found that “68 percent of those who voted in the 2020 presidential election turned out to vote in the 2022 midterms,” and that “Former President Donald Trump’s voters turned out at a higher rate in 2022 (71 percent) than did President Joe Biden’s voters (67 percent).”…