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Which is correct? "Christmas came three days early to felons" or "Christmas came three days earlier to felons"?

The wave of corrupt presidential pardons began Wednesday.

Christmas came three days early to felons George Papadopoulos, former Congressmen Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins, and 17 others.

Hunter and Collins lined their family's pockets by misusing campaign funds or inside information. Papadopoulos lied to the FBI in the Mueller investigation.

Source: The Hill

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Normally "Early". As an adverb it means "before the usual or expected time"

I'll finish work early today.

The metaphor here is that people usually receive gifts on the 25th. But these criminals had the gift of freedom given to them on the 22nd, in the form of a Presidential pardon.

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