Walker came closer than expected, but runoffs never get the same funding or turnout.
It's no longer about votes. It's about ballots.
Dems are winning urban areas because they harvest ballots (legally or not) from people who wouldn't otherwise vote. That's why they wanted mail in voting instead of having to present yourself at the polls. It was never about safety or Covid.
Legal harvesting in California has flipped a couple of seats to the GOP over the last two election cycles, and it's only a matter of time before the state parties in Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania catch on.
Things will get reset again once the GOP adapts to play by the new rules.
In 2016, Trump won in part because he was able to use social media the way that the Dems had done with Obama. Now that Twitter has been freed, it will be interesting to see how much that can be re-leveraged in 2024.