When it comes to the 2020 Democratic field, President Donald Trump’s public rhetoric and put-downs often clash with his private assessments and concessions. Behind closed doors, he has repeatedly, if at times begrudgingly, praised what he sees as Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) populist acumen and large
When it comes to the 2020 Democratic field, President Donald Trump’s public rhetoric and put-downs often clash with his private assessments and concessions.
Sources close to the president said that tracks with what Trump says privately. Three senior officials on his 2020 campaign said that the South Bend mayor rarely, if ever, comes up in any meaningful way during high-level strategy meetings, while other prominent Democratic presidential contenders regularly do.
“There are few who scare us less than Mayor Pete,” said a senior Trump re-election campaign official, who specifically cited some of Buttigieg’s dramatically lacking poll numbers among African-American voters. “[Andrew] Yang scares us more than Mayor Pete,” the source added, referencing the entrepreneur outsider registering in the low single digits.
“I don’t see a snowball’s chance in hell that he actually wins the nomination,” one top Republican Party official said. “We all know how he’s polling with black South Carolina Democrats.” Asked for comment on this story, a 2020 Trump campaign spokesperson simply told The Daily Beast on Wednesday, “the campaign has never expressed a desired candidate, and we are ready for whichever flawed and lackluster candidate emerges from the field.”
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