There's no doubt that the upcoming presidential election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will be a close one, especially if it boils down to a small selection of crucial swing states. 

Many left-leaning outlets, like The Guardian, are already predicting a scenario in which the election is contested, and worried that Trump, given the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, could continue his winning streak with the high court.

In a recent piece written for the outlet titled "There’s a danger that the US supreme court, not voters, picks the next president," author David Daley warned that the high court could hand Trump the proper court victories to have him declared president.

Of course, such a story is meant to stir anti-Trump emotions on the left, as it's all speculation and hypotheticals at this point.

What did he say?

Daley presented several hypotheticals that could happen on the night of Election Day that might trigger Republican officials into asking the Supreme Court to intervene.

He wrote:

Or maybe an election evening fire at a vote counting center in Milwaukee disrupts balloting. The progressive majority on the state supreme court attempts to establish a new location, but Republicans ask the US supreme court to shut it down.

Daley warned readers that any scenario could end up with Republicans pushing a situation to a Supreme Court filled with Trump-friendly justices, which he believes could determine the outcome of the election.

He wrote, "There are dozens of scenarios where Trump’s endgame not only pushes a contested election into the courts, but ensures that it ends up before one court in particular: a US supreme court packed with a conservative supermajority that includes three lawyers who cut their teeth working on Bush v Gore."

He also pointed to Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, a conservative activist, and several other examples of why he believes Trump has the high court on his side.

The author continues to lay out hypothetical paths to a Bush vs. Gore redo, noting that this time around, the deciding factor will be a conservative majority Supreme Court.

Already a Republican ally?

Daley insists that Chief Justice John Roberts has already "laid much of the groundwork" for potential chaos, noting that several voting-related decisions that favor Republicans have already been decided.

He continued to fantasize about a situation in Georgia involving the Trump-friendly, "renegade state election board," that would swing things in Trump's favor.

It goes without saying, Daley has a lot of time on his hands to think of such scenarios and publish them as if they're already happening.

Only time will tell how the 2024 election shakes out.