victory. what mcconnell doesn t want to do is fight a long fight and lose. he would like for biden to take his victory lap and go back to pill loring him on the economy and covid. they don t have the numbers here, manchin and sinema have never departed, and they have a chance of sysome republicans. there will be nasty words thrown around but i don t think a real prospect of a loss here and that will affect the whole campaign as it were. nia, breyer s confirmation was 87-9. scalia, 98. the supreme court confirmation votes now are close to, if not maybe this will be the first time, on party line. why? why is this happening increasingly? you know, increasing partisanship, obviously, in washington, very stark dividing lines in terms of the issues. i mean, you had donald trump come into office or campaign,