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...Whereas nationally more nonvoters say they would rather vote this November for a generic Democratic nominee than vote for Trump, in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia, more nonvoters say they would vote for Trump than a Democrat.
...In Pennsylvania, one of several states where the conservative group Judicial Watch is pressuring officials to "Clean" their voter rolls, the Knight survey shows far more nonvoters say they would vote for Trump than for a Democratic nominee in 2020.
...Joel Edman, executive director of the Arizona Advocacy Network, told NBC News: "Being on the PEVL has proven to be a strong driver of turnout among those least likely to vote. Removing those marginal voters from the PEVL would only further depress their turnout rate." According to the new data from Knight, Arizona's nonvoter population is overwhelmingly more likely to support Trump than the Democratic nominee in 2020.
..."People mistake ideology for partisanship. In the case of the left, you've got this ideology that's against enforcing the rule of law. Our ideology is for the rule of law," he tells POLITICO. "Dirty voting rolls can lead to dirty elections. It provides additional opportunities for potential fraud." A now-disbanded commission by the Trump administration found no evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud.
...The Associated Press reported last year that the Trump campaign views nonvoters as "An untapped stash of Republican support that can help him overcome stubbornly low poll numbers and his difficulties in winning over voters in the shrinking political center." Bill Stepien, a senior political adviser to the Trump campaign, told reporters: "There's a new math spurred by a new candidate at the top of his ticket. And I think we need to throw out the old way we look at how elections are won and lost."
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