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Early voting jumps across Senate battlegrounds as millions more vote

The AP analysis counts more than forty-three million early ballots, nearly ten million more than in twenty twenty-two; it does not show who got them.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMore than forty-three million Americans have already voted, which is nearly ten million more than at this point in twenty twenty-two, according to an Associated Press analysis.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's a turnout surge. In Texas early voting is up fifty percent, with six point three million ballots already in.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHarris County alone had eight hundred sixty-two thousand seven hundred voters as of Wednesday, up from five hundred sixty-four thousand five hundred. Great news, right?

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd say it's a big participation moment, and I'd say the campaigns are thrilled to have such an engaged audience for their final, very loud week.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBut hundreds of millions of dollars went into that Texas race. So what are the last few days of ads for?

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorReinforcement. The messaging is simply being thorough.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMichigan is up about four hundred nine thousand votes, thirty-two percent, and Maine is up forty-four percent.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd the AP says none of this shows who got the votes.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo everyone's winning until they open the boxes.

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