I believe that the Dems cheated in 2016 as well, and that Trump wouldn’t have won without interference ito that cheating.
The omissions of the critique in the weeks following speak loudly to the likely source of that interference and explains the anti-Russian ferocity of “Pee-gate”...imho
I do not believe the Dems cheated in 2016. I think they really had confidence in their mighty “Blue Wall”, and I think they really believe that Hillary would win in her own right.
After all, who would vote for that other guy, right?
I think the shock lead them to work out a plan for cheating which was tested in 2018, and then taken full-scale in 2020.
The Dems cheated in their usual ways in 2016. They just did not realize how much Trump would win by and so they didn’t cheat enough to beat him. Thus, they added many unprecedented ways of election fraud in 2020.