That's like trying to say that if the election wasn't decided by electoral college votes, they would have campaigned differently and we can't really predict the outcome. Instead we know that Hillary won the popular vote in an election decided by the electoral college. It's all meaningless discussion at this point.
What Russia cares about is that we think the election was influenced by them, and we lose trust in our democracy. The MSM understood that back before when they believed Hillary would the election, and the message was keep confidence in our democracy. Now that Trump won, the message is Russia has infiltrated our democracy!!!
Can you show me some examples of this supposed shifting media message?
I bet it will be about voting machines not being compromised, which is no different than today.