I think part of the problem with the question involves the term “conspiracies”. When Russiagate was going on, I kept saying it was a sham, that it wasn’t true. Yet many on the left swore it was true. I was accused of being a conspiracy theorist saying it was a scam. When the dust settled, it was indeed a scam. No Russia collusion, corruption on the part of the FBI and other high level players…a lot that was said that was called a conspiracy. So to say “should the Republicans focus on the electorate rather than the “conspiracy” is assuming it is a conspiracy.
But let’s think for a moment. What would it have taken for Biden to win. Trump got more minority (black and latino) support than any other Republican in the past 60 years. Yet Biden won. Trump won all but one the bellweather counties (those counties that have consistently voted for the winner of the presidential election) yet Biden won. Biden did worse than Hillary in every major metropolitan area except Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta, and Philadelphia, yet he won. He lost Ohio to Trump by a large margin (over 8%)...a state that every president has had to win to get to the presidency…and yet he won. He didn’t really campaign, rather spent his entire time “in the basement”...yet he won. He didn’t really answer any major questions from the media…yet he won. The software used to count the ballots In Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania was created in Venezuela by Hugo Chavez’s administration to ensure he won all subsequent elections. It can be manipulated to swap votes, add votes…whatever is necessary to make the count what he wants it to be. And these states, amazingly, had shutdowns in the middle of the night and all showed massive spikes in Biden votes after the shutdown. Basically, Biden did nothing to win, didn’t do as well as Hillary, didn’t win any of the areas that have consistently picked the winners, had “must win” states using software known to be created for cheating at elections, yet somehow managed to win. Sorry, when it looks like week old fish, and smells like week old fish, it is probably week old fish. And when you are talking about the foundation of our democracy, week old fish is not what you want to smell.