Today is Saturday, September 21st. With election day, just about a month and a half away now,

both presidential candidates are focusing on turning out the vote. But what kinds of voter registration

trends are we seeing during this unprecedented election cycle?

What people and events caused spikes in voter registrations?

And what does that really mean for election day?

Target smart senior advisor Tom Bonier joins me to break down what he's seeing in this year's registration data from what's surprised him the most to the impact of Taylor Swift's endorsement to what he's watching for next.

Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday, when we sit down with a different expert or celebrity every Saturday

to talk about something in the news.

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regular episodes where we provide all the days news in 10 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy

it's now time for today's special edition Saturday.

Tom Bunn, thank you for joining us here on the newsworthy.

It's great to be here.

So first I'd love to hear what kinds of voter registration trends overall that you've seen so far this election season

especially compared to the last two presidential elections.

Yeah, it's been an interesting year to put it mildly you've sort of have a tale of

two election cycles within one election cycle where prior to President

Biden withdrawing from the race and endorsing Vice President Harris, you saw registration data that frankly

didn't look very good for Democrats,

look better for Republicans, you saw a higher level of engagement from Republicans.

And then really as if a switch was flipped after July 21st when that candidate change happened. You saw many more

registrations from voters who traditionally would be thought of as

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