The decision to encourage early voting assisted the GOP in securing low-propensity voters and giving President-elect Trump a historic victory that made him only the second person in history to be elected to two non-consecutive terms as President of the United States, the other being Grover Cleveland, who served from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

Pollster Scott Rasmussen appeared on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast on Wednesday, where he explained how the new strategy assisted Republicans in a historic victory, Just The News reported.

“I heard from a lot of Republicans who said, you know, ‘I don’t like early voting, I don’t think we should do this, but we have to win if we want to change the rules.’ So, you know, I don’t think this is an issue that’s going to go away, but it has changed the game,” he said.

“This idea of early voting is a relatively new phenomenon,” the pollster said. “When I started polling, it just didn’t exist except for absentee ballots. And in 2020, because of the pandemic, it took on a new form in ways that we never could have imagined just a couple of decades back.