What has early voting got to do with it?
I’m tired of that lame argument. You vote or you don’t .
Mail-in ballots invite fraud. CT people are being prosecuted for stuffing mail ins, stealing them and destroying one’s that don’t vote their way.
VA is a Blue state.
What has early voting got to do with it?
Early and mail-in voting, along with ballot harvesting and ballot curing are the tools that the Democrat machine has been using to effectively steal elections. It got a lot worse in 2020, but early experiments were rolling out before then.
But like it or not, that's the new system. The one slim hope is that Republican campaigns will start making some sort of effective use of those tools to get their voters to the polls, though we'll never match the Democrats in that regard, and this really is in part a preview of next year's presidential race.
Single women vote D +70. That used to matter a lot less, but with mail-in ballots, it matters a lot: the Democrat machine has shown that it can collect those low-information votes with terrible efficiency. Republicans will never be able to fully counter that, but if they want to win, they're going to have to use every tool out there, and that includes GOTV that recognizes, and addresses the current voting systems that are actually in place, and not merely hark back to the good old days when elections might have been nominally fair.