The hot trending Super Tuesday news puts Democrat presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden under a microscope. But the bigger story the mainstream media conveniently ignores is that Republican primary turnout has been massive. Driven by the popularity of President Donald Trump, GOP primary enthusiasm appears to be through the roof, and that’s a telltale sign Democrats are about to get swept away by a Red Tsunami come November.
When New Hampshire and Iowa held their primaries in early February, most media pundits focused on the broad field of Democrats and how voter responses would shake out. President Trump and Vice Pres. Mike Pence have only token opposition at the ballot, at best. But what stunned political insiders was an unprecedented swell of GOP voter turnout. In fact, Pres. Trump drove more supporters than his popular predecessor.
President Trump secured more than 31,000 Iowa primary votes, outpacing Obama’s second campaign that garnered only 25,000. In New Hampshire, the president enjoyed 129,696 primary votes, a number that more than doubles the response both President’s Obama and George W. Bush received as incumbents. Super Tuesday continues a surge of Republican engagement that the left-leaning media does not want to tell voters about.
In Alabama, the president topped 710,000 votes in a state he dominated in 2016. Biden won the Democrat side of the primary with a lackluster 286,630 votes in comparison.
In seemingly ultra-liberal California, Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Democrat majority with 992,328 votes. Pres. Trump was closing in on 1.5 million, with 92.6 percent of the GOP results tabulated as of this writing.
Mentally unfit Biden got his largest delegate boost by winning Texas with 661,450 votes on Super Tuesday. President Trump got nearly 2 million votes comparatively, with 94 percent counted.
Should Biden successfully plead his case to the Democrat establishment that he is the best choice to run against the Trump-Pence ticket, he will have to explain how he could not muster an equal number of primary support when the incumbents have nothing on the line. Biden has long been touting he could upset President Trump by sweeping the South. He’ll have to use some slick math because the recent primary numbers don’t add up in his favor.
The question everyday Americans are wondering is largely the same one left-leaning pundits are hush about. Mid-term elections and primary turnout are consistently lower than the number who lineup to vote during the presidential, or on-year elections. Democrats were able to gain a narrow House majority with depressed voter participation in 2018.
According to a report by Brooking, “Turnout in 2018 was 50 percent. So simply, the average gain from 2018 to 2020 would put turnout near 70 percent, a level we haven’t seen in more than a century.”
Looking back to 2016, Republicans swept the Senate, House, and presidency with big voter turnout. The 2020 election could very well be the sequel as the president has galvanized and energized the Republican base.
“Starting from a lower base, then, the Democratic nominee will have more room to gain than will President Trump,” a Brooking report states. “But as we saw in 2016, the national popular vote isn’t always dispositive. It’s entirely possible that Mr. Trump’s intense and unrelenting focus on mobilizing his base will produce victories where he needs them.”
