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Yeah those are basically the Scenarios with two big corrections in scenario #2:
As for the DNC not being able to stop a left of center candidate, just look at what they did against Sanders, even before counting the super-candidates which were going to vote against him anyway and override the popular vote. The idea that Obama is in any way, form or shape left of Obama is hilarious for anybody who, like me, was in Finance at the time of the 2008 Crash and had a front row seat to see how exactly Obama unconditionally saved the wealthiest people and made everybody else pay the price - just because the guy is a true political songbird who makes amazing speeches doesn't mean "the greatest good for the greatest number" - the core principle of the Left - is even in the tinyiest of ways part of his principles. The Clinton-vs-Obama primary was a fight between two kinds of neoliberals that put in opposition two factions within the American Elites, not a fight between somebody representing the average American and somebody representing the Elites.
We don't know really how bad a Trump presidency will be, though we know for sure just how far to the right are Biden's principles, but yeah, you are right that a Trump presidency might (it's all speculation until it actually happens) be incredibly destructive, which is why I pointed out in my comment (last paragraph) that it's definitelly a risk and people should consider all things in their voting decision.
Personally I think either of them will lead to the death for good of Democracy in America, though doing it via Biden will probably mean it will happen with more steps, but that's just my opinion based on the trend so far (and, that I expect that a guy who supports what are basically the modern Nazis whilst they mass murder civilians because of being from another etnicity is either a sociopath or an extreme racist and that means he will just as happilly fuck up the lives of Americans - though, no doubt, unlike Trump he will be telling them that's not what he's doing - just as as he is right now happilly helping out murdering en mass Palestinians: good people don't knowingly help others commit mass murder).
I might be wrong on all of this and even if I'm not, not being American or living in America I'm way more isolated and have no real stake on that choice, so I openly admit that I have the priviledge of being able to hold a Thinking Person's highly intellectual position on this because either way it impacts me very little personally, so I can just analyse the whole situation and point out the broader implications of the voting decision for a leftie and the profound hypocrisy of the Propaganda which tries to deceive people with the idea that it's a simple consequences free choice, with no real additional risk either way for my own future.