It bears repeating

Things are looking so bad for the acting president’s reelection, even Vladimir Putin is hedging his bets. While noting former Vice President Joe Biden’s “sharp anti-Russian rhetoric,” Biden’s willingness to engage in talks to limit strategic weapons “is already a very serious element of our possible cooperation.”

Trump? Biden? Whatever.

Poor Donald.

Putin’s flexibility may be more than a President Biden gets from compatriots in his country’s conservative party, as Digby reminded Twitter on Tuesday:

Biden's promising unity, which is a great campaign slogan as his former boss knows well. It's understandable that people are yearning for it and want to hear it from their leaders

But keep in mind that all the opposition has to do to make you a failure is to refuse to cooperate.

— digby (@digby56) October 6, 2020

Count on it.

Josh Marshall thinks temporarily Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning for a change in his status as well, and to shift into trench warfare no matter how overwhelming a Democratic victory in November.

Decent chance McConnell suckered Trump into pulling the plug on stimulus. Party is in bust out mode. McC likely sees that Trump is finished, probably senate majority too. Get the Court seat and leave the economy as wrecked as possible to ensure a Biden admin is stillborn.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 7, 2020

Get out there and vote. Get your friends to vote. Your relatives. Your neighbors. They’ll need to develop political muscles for the fight that comes after we win this one. And no matter what the polls say, that’s not a sure thing.

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