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To "win?" No - not really.
But I don't think that matters much.
Honestly, I think that Trump and the overt fascists and plutocrats who are backing him fully intend to get him into office or destroy the country trying - that if he doesn't win legitimately, he'll "win" through fraud, or through the machinations of the brazenly corrupt and compromised supreme court, or through violent revolution.
His backers - the Heritage Foundation and the rest of the fascists and Musk and Thiel and the rest of the plutocrats and so on - don't just want to try to get him into office - they want to destroy American liberty and democracy. It's not even so much about him specifically - he's just the right combination of charismatic and shallow that they see him as their opportunity to impose the autocracy they want. And I don't think they're going to let anything stand in their way. So whether or not he actually wins the election isn't even really relevant, other than to the degree that that will determine what other strategies they might have to, and will, implement.
He wasn't even able to do that when he had the full power of the presidency at his disposal. The reality is that he has a lot of grandiose plans that far exceed his competence.
While he had fake electors last time, they weren't as widespread as they've become over the last 4 years. He also didn't have the coordination of the Heritage Foundation either like he does now. He also didn't have a House of Representatives willing to steal the election last time.
He has a lot going for his machinations this time.
He doesn't need to do it this time - he has a veritable army of fascists, a brazenly corrupt and compromised supreme court and a squad of billionaire plutocrats to do it all on his behalf, and not coincidentally they have a detailed blueprint in Project 2025 that tells them exactly what to do, step by step, to transform the US into a christofascist/plutocratic autocracy.
All Trump has to do this time around is just carry on being Trump, while all those other people do all the dirty work.
He had most of those things last time too, plus the power of office.