In some closely contested battlegrounds, the number of immigrants eligible to naturalize outnumbers the margins of victory in 2020.
Naturalized citizens could have an impact on the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, according to experts.Naturalized citizens made up a record number of eligible voters in 2022, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Almost 24 million naturalized citizens were eligible to vote that year, accounting for about 10 percent of the U.S. electorate.
citizens and thus eligible to vote in time for November's election , if enough do so in the crucial swing states, these new voters could—in theory—influence the outcome of the election.The votes of naturalized citizens 'will be crucial and potentially decisive in swing states that will likely be carried by razor-thin margins by one of the presidential contenders,' Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
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