Opinion: What surge of early voters tells us about 2020

More than 86 million Americans have already voted in the 2020 presidential election. And, according to at least one turnout model, we are on track to see a record 157 million people vote in 2020. To give you an idea of just what a big shift that would be, in 2016, there were about 157 million people who reported being registered to vote, according to US census data.