Home Current News Biden’s rise in 2020 race catches Trump’s eye, unnerves his allies

Biden’s rise in 2020 race catches Trump’s eye, unnerves his allies

75

Biden's rise in 2020 race catches Trump's eye, unnerves his alliesBiden soared from “will-he-or-won’t-he-run?” status to the head of the crowded Democratic field just days after announcing his candidacy last week, pulling away from Senator Bernie Sanders and a host of other rivals in opinion polls. A CNN poll gave Biden a 15-point lead in a field of 20 Democratic candidates. Some Trump advisers see the former vice president, with his mainstream blue-collar appeal, as a tough opponent in the three states that carried Trump to his improbable victory in 2016 – Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.