You’re always a bellwether until you’re not. The whole state of Missouri used to be a bellwether.
In order to believe it was as simple as that you have to believe Biden was immensely more popular than Trump.
Biden could barely scrape a few dozen people together- Trump had tens of thousands at his rallies.
Occams razor: Dems cheated.
I don’t think this is over yet.
Funny thing about Missouri - it was a "bellwether" until the Democrats figured out that even The Lightbringer couldn't win the state for them [Obama lost in 2008 by 4000 votes out of 2.9 million].
Interestingly, in 2012 Milt Romney beat the Halfrican by 260,000 votes out of 2.7 million.
Trump beat Cankles in 2016 by 525,000 out of 2.66 million, and beat joek and The Ho by 465,000 out of 2.97 million in 2020.
Notice a trend?
Apparently, 250,000 to 500,000 Democrat voters wandered away from the Missouri voting booth when the DNC figured out it wasn't worth spending the money or the effort there.
Or they never really existed in the first place...