Texas is already setting records in voter turnout with four days to go until election day.
More than 9 million Texans already cast their ballot as of Thursday, compared to 8.97 million in total who voted in 2016. That was a record at the time.
Of the more than 9 million ballots cast, 8,062,615 came from Texans voting early in-person. Another 947,235 people have voted by mail.
We still don’t know which candidate will benefit more from the surge in voter turnout since voters in Texas do not register with a political party. But, according to the polls, the race between Biden and Trump in the reliable red state is very close.
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Trump won the state by 9 points in 2016, but his lead against Biden in the polls narrowed to low single digits in the final stretch of the campaign and now Democrats are making a last minute bid to flip the Lone Star state.
