Georgina Cutler
Guest Reporter
Donald Trump's campaign strategy for the 2024 election has undergone a significant shift, a political analyst has told GB News - as voters in Georgia turned out in record numbers.
Speaking to the People's Channel, Martha Zoller said that Trump has abandoned his previous scepticism towards early voting and absentee ballots.
At least 252,000 voters cast ballots at early-voting sites on Tuesday - nearly double the 136,000 who participated in the first day of early voting in the 2020 election.
Trump, who attended a campaign event in Atlanta this week, expressed enthusiasm for early voting in Georgia.
Zoller, a former aide to Georgian Governor Brian Kemp, said: "The biggest change he's made related to voting is that he was casting shade, if you will, on early voting and absentee ballot voting. And he's not doing that anymore."
This new approach, dubbed 'bank your vote', encourages supporters to cast their ballots early.
The host of The Martha Zoller Show continued to praise the campaign's professionalism, telling GB Neww: "He has a better campaign than he has had in the last two campaigns. He has professional people running it."
Zoller said the Grand Old Party has undergone a transformation, evolving into a more populist, working-class party.
She claimed: "I think that the Republican Party today is a more populist party, is a more working-class party."
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"Ironically, we used to be the party of the money. Now, the wealthiest zip codes in America are Democrat.
"The Republican Party is going through transition, just as the Democratic Party is.
"There's a realignment between the people that are in the parties."
Zoller suggested that Trump's success may hinge on support from a diverse working-class base, including people "who don't have a college degree and are working class".
Georgia has emerged as a crucial swing state in the 2024 election, attracting unprecedented attention from both parties.
Zoller said: "It's been 25 years since we've had this much campaigning in the state of Georgia because we weren't a swing state until this year."
She said: "We are having everybody; Democrat, Republican and everybody in between coming to Georgia."
"You name them, they're here in Georgia."
Emphasising the importance of economic factors, Zoller said: "Numbers just came out today that incomes are not any better for middle-class people."
"That's what really turned the election for him in 2016. Those numbers coming out in October, that incomes were not that much better for middle class people."
She concluded: "It's not your father's Republican Party. We'll have to see how it ends up."
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