Election 2024 Features Same Candidates But a New Cast of Voters

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, politics reporter Gregory Korte outlines how the US electorate has changed since the 2020 election. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

For at least two decades, it’s been an article of faith for Democrats that long-term demographic trends are on their side. A younger, growing and more diverse America, the theory goes, means a more liberal America.