I really am not the type to believe in tin foil type stuff, but I have a bad feeling about his one.
They had set the table for the Russian hack BS long before as a fallback position. Could it be that the states they thought they had set up to challenge if needed, N Carolina, Florida, and Ohio were unexpectedly out of range?
Now, it took a while to regroup, so they are throwing this out there as a last ditch effort in states like Wisconsin and Michigan where they had no ready plan for.
Exposing the funding as foreign ASAP, before they can even file in Wisconsin could stop this cold. Tough to do given the time frame on a holiday.