Amy Walter:
There is a glimmer of bipartisanship.
And, again, this is the second time that — well, when he was candidate Biden, sort of made this bet, right, that has actually paid off, a bet that was against conventional wisdom. The first bet was that Democratic primary voters would reward a longtime insider establishment who didn’t want to shake up the system in the way that a Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren did, that that’s who Democratic voters would pick as their nominee.
Most of the Washington world said, that’s not going to happen. He wins. He comes in, he says, we’re going to have real bipartisanship. I know the Senate. I have been a member of the Senate for most of my political career. I get how this place works. We’re going to make it work. Everybody said, eh, bipartisanship that’s old and it doesn’t work that way anymore, Joe.
And it looks as if those two bets have paid off. And the big bet is going to come in November. Will he be able to say as well, and this bet I made on getting a big, big, more government spending package through, not only is it helping Democrats, but we’re not also battling inflation, which is what Republicans would argue will happen?
