Young voter registration spikes to record numbers in 48 hours after Harris takes helm

New voter registration spiked to record levels in the first 48 hours after president Joe Biden ended his presidential campaign.

The nonpartisan Vote.org website saw its highest level of new voter registrations of the 2024 election cycle in the first two days after Biden dropped out and endorsed vice president Kamala Harris, with 38,500 people signing up – a 700 percent spike, reported Politico Playbook.

That's even higher than when Taylor Swift made an Instagram post urging her fans to register, Playbook noted, and most of the new registrations came from voters who are 34 years old or younger.

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Vote.org, the largest get-out-the-vote technology platform in the nation, hopes to register 8 million voters before November's election and reports that 500,000 have already registered this cycle, including a record number of 18-year-old new voters.

Nearly 80 percent of Democratic voters favor the 59-year-old Harris taking over the party's nomination from the 81-year-old Biden, according to a new poll conducted by YouGov for CBS News, and found only 21 percent favored nominating someone else.

The poll also found 45 percent of Democratic voters felt better about the party's chances of defeating Donald Trump in November with Harris instead of Biden atop the ticket.

Only 10 percent of Democratic voters felt the party's chances were worse, while 17 percent say they were unchanged and 28 percent felt those chances depended on who would eventually become the nominee, according to the report.

The Democratic National Convention, where the party will officially select a nominee, is scheduled for August 19-22 in Chicago, but Harris already has secured support from enough delegates to secure the nomination.