Your random election data stat thread of the day: Arizona has seen 712,673 people register to vote since Donald Trump carried the state by 91,234 votes in 2016 (the worst performance by a GOP presidential candidate in the state since Bob Dole in 1996).
Among Arizonans who registered to vote at any point before the 2016 election, Republicans have a 4.3% advantage. Among the 712,673 who have registered since that day, Democrats have a 1.8% advantage.
The new Arizona electorate heading into the 2020 elections is younger as well. 230,568 of the 712,673 people who registered to vote since the 2016 election are under the age of 25. That's almost a third of all new registrants.
The eligible electorate in Arizona in '20 will be significantly more diverse than it was in 2016. Latinos account for 15.8% of those who registered to vote prior to the '16 election, but make up 20% of the 712,673 new registrants since that day. That's 142,741 new Latino voters.
The electorate in Arizona will only continue to grow more diverse - among registered voters in the state under age 25, 30% are Hispanic, and 40% in total are people of color.
