748,973 voters under the age of 30 have already voted in Texas. 66% of them didn't vote in '16.

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

Jesus Wept, that's WOW

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[MakeTXBlue2020]

2. Amazing!

Have to give a big shout out to Beto. His campaign in 2018 registered so many new voters. I'm really starting to feel like the high turnout could end up giving Biden the state!

[uponit7771]

3. Has this been confirmed? I'd like to text a link. Thx in advance

[LAS14]

4. That's just gotta be good. nt

[onetexan]

5. OMG amazing!!! Thanks to Beto for the GOTV & all his people's hard work!

[dawg day]

6. Fortunately with young people-- there's a new crop of 18-year-olds each year

And they won't have voted last time, and are 2/3rds Dem.

And to be crass, I have to add-- every year a bunch of old people die, 2/3rds of them probably GOP.

Demographics favor Dems.

[Sherman A1]

7. K&R

I hope for a soul crushing (not that they have any) defeat for the republicans.

[42bambi]

8. San Antonio Gal here ... THANKS BETO!

[triron]

9. So about 10.5% of the total votes so far cast? How does that compare with demographics?

[Awsi Dooger]

12. 18-29 was 18% of Texas vote in 2016

At least according to exit polls

Youth numbers are up but not in relation to percentage of overall vote. Given Beto's efforts I suspect the percentage of young registered voters has increased.

Young voters tend to vote late. Banking as many as possible early is a good sign. There has been youth registration and turnout emphasis on Snapchat and TikTok.

18-29 bracket by definition always has inflated number of voters who didn't vote 4 years earlier, because some of them were 14-17 years old at the time.

[Thekaspervote]

10. polls show they support Dems..and why not?!!

[SomedayKindaLove]

11. Encouraging, any time voting numbers are up like this

But 500,000 new votes doesn’t mean they are Biden votes. Even if they are 60% Biden votes, it’s only a pick up of 100,000 votes.

Trump beat Clinton by about 808,000 votes in 2016 so there is a lot of ground to make up.

Not sure Texas will turn blue this time, but it is trending closer and closer. If it does turn blue I’d expect a Biden landslide.

[fleabiscuit]

13. Clinton had nearly 3-million more votes.

May want to flesh that out a bit more.

[LisaL]

14. 800,000 was by how many votes Trump beat Clinton in TX.

So we have to make up that much of a difference.

[SoonerPride]

15. The post was about the margin of trumps margin in texas

To turn texas blue we need about a million more voters.

[LisaL]

16. Assuming all of those who voted for Trump the first time will still vote for him.

I presume most of them will. But TX is a low turnout state (or at least was in past elections). TX has millions of non voters (people who didn't vote in previous elections).
So if turnout is increased anything can happen.