With less than two weeks until the 2026 midterm elections, early votes cast so far serve as one more piece of evidence that Democratic enthusiasm is high in some key states, according to ABC News' analysis.

What the early vote shows and doesn’t show

More than 18 million Americans had cast their votes early by mail or in person as of Thursday morning, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida .

Registered Democrats and those modeled as likely to vote for Democrats have cast an even higher share of early votes in all states except for Alaska and Michigan, where the share is similar to 2024. This is according to ABC News' own analysis run on Tuesday using voter file data from L2, a company that aggregates voter registration data with other sources to provide insights into voters and their behavior such as demographics and partisanship.…