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Constitutionally, elections are governed by the states. He can't just stop elections. The federal executive literally has zero power over them, and that is by design.
But what he could do, and what I think he was or is planning on doing, is to try to create conditions to dissuade states from holding elections, like inciting disorder with ICE, as he tried in Minnesota, to then use as an excuse to invoke martial law. A state could then decide, based on its own constitution, what to do in that situation, including postponing to some future date "to be determined" later.
Fortunately, public outrage is now such that I think there will be such a voter turnout that some of what he tried in 2020 -- calling state election officials and ordering them to "find him votes" like he did Raffensperger in Georgia -- is dead in the water.
Or to put it another way, if we keep protesting and showing up like we did in January, I don't think anyone at the state or local level is going to have the courage to "find" him jack shit, because they know they'll be facing a mob if they do.