I rather think it had more to do with the way people are allowed to vote by mail and ballot harvesting and early voting.
Quite so. As I have said couple times before, the problem that the pubs have is the "whizzing vans" the dems have. Handing out free cigarettes and whizzing people to the polls. Whizzing their ballot harvesters all over town for the month long voting season, whizzing seniors down to free buffet and bingo where they will collect their ballots, even fill them out for them.
Republicans relying on hard core voters showing up to vote in person is not a winning plan anymore. It's voting season now. Not election day. And by the time the pubs up their game to compete with that, the dems will have upped their game to online voting on your smart phone.
There a lot of scam factors that came into play in this election. The dems are currently crowing about getting out the youth vote. Yeh right. Dems promised them student loan write-down/cancellation knowing full well that it was unconstitutional by executive order. Did I say "scam?" Indeed I did.