Mitch McConnell and a majority of GOP senators are determined to prevent any meaningful stimulus before the election. That would appear to be inconsistent with the interests of Trump and several endangered GOP incumbents. What are they thinking?
They have given up on the idea of winning a free and fair election. In their eyes, one of two things will happen: the Republicans will win through vote suppression and their effective control of the Supreme Court; or they will lose, and the remaining Republican senators will be reasonably positioned to move immediately into Tea Party/bogus deficit reduction mode, as in 2009.