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I feel like what's more likely is Trump actually winning via election fraud, there's conservatives and people connected to conservatives getting arrested even to this year for trying to rig the previous 2020 election, and I highly doubt that they won't try that again. There's also the recent supreme court decision to make president immune from persecution for "official acts during presidency", which can be read as setting the stage for Trump's arrival.
trump has lied, cheated, and stole his way through life and never faced any consequences. He orchestrated an attack on our country's capital to stop the election from taking place and faced no consequences for it. You can be damn sure he'll try any shady, shitty tactic in the book to try and steal this election as well in fraudulent ways because that's just who he is deep down, a rotten fraudulent conman. That is his essence. His entire being. A dumb piece of shit fraud that will do anything to win and get what he wants because he has never faced consequences for being a piece of shit before.
That's certainly a possibility, but I don't think it's as likely as others, mostly because the right made a concerted effort to gain control over the balloting process and for the most part resoundingly lost. There are places in which they have the necessary control to rig the election, but they're limited to places that are so thoroughly red that Trump would win them anyway, so aren't going to be relevant. In the places in which it could be relevant, in spite of their determined efforts, I don't think that the right gained enough control over the system to get away with large-scale fraud.
It's still a possibility - we're up against entirely unprincipled people who will stop at literally nothing to impose the bloody tyranny for which they lust - but at least that particular scenario is, I believe, somewhere down on the list of threats.