NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hillyard said Wednesday that not a single early voter his team interviewed in the battleground state of Arizona admitted to voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. Ta.

In the Jose Díaz-Balart Report, Hillard said that Republicans outnumbered Democrats in voting by mail and early voting by a 2-to-1 margin, but that Democrats outperformed Republicans in early voting in 2020. spoke. The NBC correspondent added that not a single voter in line at a Mohave County polling place openly said they would vote for Harris.

“I went to several early voting locations and there were long lines at lunchtime. There were 30 people in line, but not one person could definitely say they voted for Kamala Harris. We have to note that there was not,” Hillyard said. “These were Trump supporters who went out to vote early in crucial Mohave County.”

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Jim Coddington, one of Republican candidate Donald Trump’s supporters, said voters are making an “extra effort” to vote this year and it’s important for voters to cast their ballots early. Sherry Schwartz, a Mohave County voter, said she voted early for the first time because President Trump encouraged voters to do so. (Related: Democrats’ early voting defense could come back to haunt them)

“He’s been saying that and I’ve been thinking about it and that’s why we’re here now,” Schwartz said.

Another voter said he didn’t vote in 2020 but voted early in 2024 because he was “terrified by the state of the country.” Three other voters he spoke with said they moved to Arizona from blue states to support Trump.

In Arizona, Trump currently leads 49% to 47%. According to In the New York Times. President Joe Biden has a narrow lead. won In 2020, his approval rating in the state was less than 1 percentage point, 49.4% to 49.1%, but the former president won In 2016, the state v. former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was 49.5% to 45.4%.

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