It won't be long now. Bernie and Hillary held a summit on Tuesday, after which they released nearly-identical statements about working together. Bernie has a big announcement planned for tomorrow. Here at last comes that unifying pivot, with the Democratic Party preshow concluding and the main event about begin.

The meeting was a long time coming — Bernie and Hillary haven't had any opportunities to sit down together in months. I do wonder what sort of ice-breaker they used to start their conversation (I bet Hillary's great a Two Truths and a Lie) but at any rate it seems to have been productive. We'll have a better sense of just how close they are to joining forces on Bernie's Thursday livestream. He'll either give us an indication of his intentions for his candidacy, or else just Twitch-stream some Overwatch.

According to some aides, they talked about unifying the party, minimum wage and affordable tuition, and also crucially the role of young people in the election. That's probably one of Bernie's strongest bargaining advantages: the kids love him, so the party definitely needs him if he can keep turning rallies and Facebook posts into votes (which is still a big if, given that Hillary still beat him in the primaries).

But Hillary has a strong bargaining position too: new polling shows her handily defeating Trump in a national election. Granted, those polls still don't mean very much this far out from November. But in 8 of 11 swing states, she's well ahead of Trump, which is at least some good news in this miserable election game.

So far, the Democrats have done a pretty good job of targeting Trump, particularly Elizabeth Warren and Obama. Hopefully, they'll soon be able to train Sanders on the GOP nominee without the distraction of Bernie also posing as a presidential candidate.

While that happens, Trump's unlikely to get much support from his own party. They've been holding out hope that he'll become more palatable to the general electorate after the primaries, but that's nuts — why would he? It's like hoping that a man-eating tiger will become your friend if you let him maul you just a little bit.

According to reports out of Washington, Republicans can't even bear to talk about Donald right now. When asked about him, one senator told reporters, "you know, hmm." And then he literally walked away. After Trump doubled down on the Muslim ban, Paul Ryan was clearly miserable: "I do not think it is reflective of our principles, not just as a party but as a country," he said of the man he continues to endorse. "It’s very disappointing," said Bob Corker, Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Lindsey Graham told reporters he'd “run out of adjectives."

Republicans created the conditions under which Trump is flourishing by grooming their voting base with racism and ignorance for decades. Now that the party's being eaten alive by an orange cancer, it would be nice to have their help fighting it. But it seems that the most the GOP will do about Donald is look uncomfortably away, so it'll fall to the Democrats to do the heavy lifting of defeating the worst presidential candidate since Rufus King killed the Federalist Party.