Gap said:
Factually there are roughly 3 million new voters in Texas along with 1 million deaths in Texas over the last 4 years.
That is definetely significant especially as the new group and old group look a lot different.
Regarding new registrations, the Harris County Tax office put out a statement on Election Day:
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Harris County has seen a historic milestone: over 2.74 million registered to vote!
The 2022 election canvass
for Harris County showed 2,543,162 registered.
The 2022 race for Governor had 1,102,418 total votes.
The 2026 race for Governor had 1,383,460 total votes.
We won't have precise numbers on turnout until the 2026 canvasses are released, but we can easily see a couple hundred thousand new voters and record midterm turnout in the largest county in Texas.
Democrats and Left-aligned groups like the Texas Organizing Project have had paid staff on the ground for several years now working on registration and turnout. We don't have anything like that infrastructure on our side.
The population growth means that a lot of new voters and transplants view Republicans as the old establishment - not the outsider reformers conservatives view ourselves as - and the tide of voting for "Change" has turned against us.
This is just the largest county in Texas, but I imagine things were similar in other urban/suburban counties.