It's the strategy to have an "emergency" instead of the election.
If the entire nation is dark, all digital networks are hard down (no information), cartels are laying siege to LE and their families to keep them from keeping order, interstate travel is impossible because of lack of fuel and MS-13 "checkpoints", the nation is blanketed with satellite-based radio jamming so that not even HAMs can make contact beyond their neighborhoods...nothing will matter except surving another day.
What a great opportunity to come to our rescue, like they did with Covid.