‘Going To Get Worse’: Dems Bleeds Support Left And Right As GOP Leads With New Voters

The Democratic Party has largely been bleeding voters since the 2020 election cycle — while the GOP has been gaining over the same time period, according to an analysis from the New York Times (NYT) published Wednesday.

The NYT’s analysis of voter registration data found that the Democratic Party shed about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections in the 30 states, alongside Washington, D.C., which allow voters to register with a political party. Meanwhile, Republicans added 2.4 million registered voters during the same time period, according to the NYT.

In both 2024 and 2025, more new voters registered with the GOP than with the Democrats, per the report. Moreover, the NYT report found that the Democratic Party saw some of its biggest declines in voter registration among men and younger Americans.

Almost 49% of men newly registering with a major political party selected the Democratic Party in 2020, according to the NYT. In 2024, that amount fell by ten percentage points — to roughly 39%, according to the outlet.

“I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ but there seems to be no end to this,” Michael Pruser, the director of data science for Decision Desk HQ, told the NYT. “There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year.”

There are currently about 160,000 fewer registered Democratic voters and 200,000 more registered Republican voters in the U.S. than there were on Election Day 2024, according to the NYT’s analysis of data from the nonpartisan firm L2. Yet, the Democratic Party still has a higher number of voters registered across the nation than the GOP does, the NYT reported.

The news comes amid recent reports