I know that the term “hacking” fits into the Dem narrative, which is why they probably continue to use it with such alacrity, but as an IT professional I truly wish they would use the correct term “phishing” as this is what, most likely, occurred.
Certain officials were targeted in an attack known as “spear phishing” where emails were sent to them that had a clickable link to a bogus site and UID/PW combos were collected, leading to a compromise in email accounts. NOTHING more can be extricated from this situation. Email chains were collected and analyzed for whatever the attacker wanted/needed.
The general populace is too ill-informed to know the difference and the majority believe that Russian operatives were directly linked to voting machines. Nothing further from the truth could be witnessed as to the insanity the left is showing.
The Left's strategy is only to maintain a shadow of a doubt. They know they'll never be tasked to prove a specific kind of impact on the election, and for their fund-raising and ability to not let 2018 midterms get away from them, they need a shred of doubt around Trump so they can tie the rest of the GOP to him.