Rubio was hardly tied to Trump. And Vance grossly underperformed DeWine, winning by 7 points while DeWine won by 25 points!
When a Senate candidate wins, but underperforms the same party’s nominee for governor by 18 points, it isn’t impressive.
JD Vance and Ted Budd were and the polling on Trump was absolutely meaningless in those races.
The difference is the three states in question don't allow rampant voter fraud and ballot harvesting.