So, here's my two cents, for what it's its worth. I don't see how we have the midterm elections. Given the state of the nation at the moment (Roe riots, baby formula shortage, gas price hikes, inflation constantly rising, and others), not to mention all that is yet to come (food shortages, more riots, possibly another "pandemic"), I think the national polls saying Biden's approval rating at around 32% are being WAY too generous. If the elections were fair (which they aren't, and haven't been fixed since the 2020 steal), we could expect a massive bloodletting of RINOs and Ds and MAGA sweeping races at all levels.
Which mean the DS has one of two options: repeat their same shenanigans from 2020 on election night when shit goes south for them (but this would make it too obvious, and you would have Civil War 2 at that point because no sane American would stand for the same BS again); or, they don't have the elections and essentially declare themselves dictators for life or use martial law or a blackout or whatever to suddenly shift the narrative to crisis mode and shutdown. I think that's the most likely scenario. Why would they even risk taking the chance of an election when they saw what happened in VA and almost happened in NJ last year? And that was before all the shit happening now. They know their screwed and it will be an absolute bloodbath for them. So they have to keep that from happening.