Historic shift: Republicans surge ahead of Democrats

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  • Source: Bob Unruh
  • 01/17/2022
Natalie Harp, a bone-cancer survivor, speaks at the Republican National Convention on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 (RNC video screenshot)

Natalie Harp, a bone-cancer survivor, speaks at the Republican National Convention on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 (RNC video screenshot)

A surge in support for the Republican Party in the last quarter of 2021 vaporized an earlier advantage in party preference for Democrats, leaving behind a stunning 14-point shift in the metric.

According to Gallup, Democrats held a nine-point advantage at the beginning of the year, with 49% of respondents choosing that party. Only 40% chose the GOP.

But by the end of the year, in which Joe Biden's administration produced catastrophe after catastrophe, the change was huge.

At that point, the GOP was being picked by 47% of the respondents; the Democrat Party only 42%.

Gallup reported the results are based on aggregated data from all U.S. Gallup telephone surveys in 2021, which included interviews with more than 12,000 randomly sampled U.S. adults.

"Gallup asks all Americans it interviews whether they identify politically as a Republican, a Democrat or an independent. Independents are then asked whether they lean more toward the Republican or Democratic Party. The combined percentage of party identifiers and leaners gives a measure of the relative strength of the two parties politically," the polling organization reported.

Both the nine-point Democratic advantage in the first quarter and the five-point Republican edge in the fourth quarter are among the largest Gallup has measured for each party in any quarter since it began regularly measuring party identification and leaning in 1991.

President Donald J. Trump speaks at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020 (RNC video screenshot)

Among Biden's headaches during 2021 were the self-inflicted disaster at the southern border, which Biden brought on by removing the successful security policies used by President Donald Trump, the Afghanistan pullout that left thousands of Americans and supporters in the hands of the Taliban terrorists, the exploding inflation that is costing Americans, especially those in lower income brackets, and his failed spending spree and failed elections takeover agendas.

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