First Person is a series of quick videos from the Cook Political Report editors exclusively for our premium members.
This week, Amy discusses Catalist's “What Happened” study, which was first shared exclusively with The Cook Political Report. The study highlights the fact that a bigger voter turnout helped Donald Trump more than Kamala Harris in 2024.
Transcript:
Hey there. Welcome to First Person. I'm Amy Walter.
Well, this week, we got a big new set of data about twenty twenty four voters. In fact, it was shared exclusively with us first shared exclusively with us.
The group is known as Catalyst. They're a data analytics firm. They're on the Democratic side, but their data is trusted by folks on both sides of the aisle and academics who work in the field of data analytics.
Here's what makes it different than, say, just exit polls or other precinct level information that we've been getting.
They use the voter file. What that means is they can match people who showed up or didn't show up in this election back to
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