Record-setting turnout includes GOP voters, who appear to be responding to former president Trump’s pivot from trashing early voting to encouraging it.

Last presidential election, Democrats dominated the early and mail votes in large part because Donald Trump convinced his supporters that anything but a vote cast in person on Election Day could not be trusted. But this year, the Republican Party has embarked on a multimillion effort to change voters’ minds. And so far, it appears to be working.

Republicans may be eclipsing Democrats in early in-person voting this year in this state, though Democrats appear to be outperforming Republicans in submitting mail-in ballots, according to data.