Data shows that early Republican voters in deep blue New Jersey are easily outperforming their Democratic neighbors.

The first in-person voting began Saturday in the Garden State. Over the weekend alone, 247,003 residents voted, NJ.com reported. Republican early voters took the lead with 144,105 GOP votes cast in the state, compared to 139,524 votes for Democrats, according to state data analyzed by the Associated Press Election researchers found out As of Tuesday.

“What we are seeing is phenomenal. Republicans are finally seizing the opportunity to vote early. The response rate for postal voting was fantastic. Local Republican organizations are doing a great job of getting the word out,” New Jersey Republican Gov. candidate Jack Ciattarelli said Wednesday on “Fox & Friends First” in response to the data.

As the New Jersey Globe reported, Democrats in the deep blue state still have the advantage over Republicans in absentee voting, with 383,062 compared to 130,362. In total, New Jersey has 6,562,735 registered voters this cycle, state data shows.

Of those registered, 2,497,951 are registered Democrats, 1,564,964 are Republicans and 2,420,522 are unaffiliated, state data shows.

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The blue state last voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 1988, when Republican Vice President George H. W. Bush defeated Democratic Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. The state had voted for Republican candidates from 1968 to 1992, when the state began its ongoing blue voting trend.

Former President Trump made early voting a hallmark of his campaign, bucking the Republican tradition of voting in person on Election Day. He spoke to voters in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday as he again urged voters to go to the polls early.

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​​”I don’t like to talk too early, but you have to go out and vote because we… we want a big, nice number. We are leaders in every single swing state. Because normally Republican, that’s what they like.” “Vote in the end, no matter what you say, they like to vote in the end,” Trump said at the rally in Allentown.

Former President Trump speaks during a campaign rally on Wildwood Beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, May 11, 2024. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Election experts have pointed to Trump’s comments on early voting as a likely trigger for the state’s record number of votes a week before Election Day.

“First, former President Trump told his supporters to vote early. “So if we take all the numbers into account, we will see a shift among Republicans from voting on Election Day to early in-person voting,” Ben Dworkin, director of the Rowan University Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship, told NJ.com about the surge in early voting in this cycle.

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A billboard at former President Trump’s rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, declaring the historic blue state “Trump Country.” (The Image Direct for Fox News Digital)

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“This is not a race where many people can’t decide between Harris and Trump. They have made up their minds and once the doors are open for early voting, they will move forward,” he added.

Trump has campaigned in the Garden State, including holding a large rally at Wildwood Beach in South Jersey in May.

“We are going to win New Jersey,” Trump told the crowd, which Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew called “the largest political rally in New Jersey history.”

Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris (Getty Images)

Ciattarelli continued in his comments to “Fox & Friends First” on Wednesday that the Republican Party could “win” the presidential race and lose the election.

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“New Jersey is not a deep blue state. We can win here, and I think Donald Trump will, as will our U.S. Senate candidate, our congressional candidates and many of our local candidates,” he said.

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