Well in 2012, my tin foil hat was on pretty tightly & I told my family there won’t be an election in 2016. Pretty sure my mother thought I lost my mind....now, she’s not so sure I was off my rocker.
There will be an election. Totalitarians do not dispense with elections. They direct and control them or simply announce the results they desire and utterly suppress anything else. They feel a constant need to prove legitimacy even as they understand that they are totally UN legitimate and elections supply a modicum of show legitimacy.