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From the New York Times, it's the Headlines.
I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Tuesday, October 22nd.
Here's what we're covering.
With two weeks to go until Election day, more than 15 million Americans have already voted and many states are setting records.
Georgia, Louisiana, and even North Carolina, which is still reeling from Hurricane Helene, have all had record turnout.
It's a sign that the huge boost in early voting that came with the pandemic is sticking around.
Americans are embracing early voting in massive numbers.
It's no longer just Election Day, but it's election season.
Nick Corsinidi is covering the election for the Times.
While it's still way too early to try and glean any partisan advantage or a look at who's winning through the early vote data that we have so far, we are seeing one key trend emerge, and that's that more Republicans are choosing to vote early.
When that comes to mail voting, Democrats are still dominating in the states where we have party registration data, but Republicans are also making gains there.
So if you were to look at Pennsylvania, you could see that in the 2020 election, Republicans only cast about 23% of the total votes by mail this year.
So far, they're about 27%.
And that's important for helping campaigns know which votes are banked and which voters they still need to target.