“Are you suggesting that more Trump supporters would have turned out if they had been allowed to start voting days or weeks before Election Day? I don’t think that’s true at all.”
Trump discouraged his supporters from mail in voting. Democrats encouraged it and it seems to have worked in their favor.
I’ve been saying for weeks that anyone who votes by mail even if they’re capable of voting in person is a moron. The U.S. Postal Service accepts a failure rate of up to 4% for its first class mail delivery, which means you’ve potentially got a 1 in 25 chance of having your ballot never show up to be counted.