A month into former Vice President Joe Biden's Democratic presidential primary campaign and President Donald Trump already is calling a top challenger "history."
The slam on Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a candidate he once praised in 2016 for creating a "movement," came via Twitter on Monday morning:
"Looks like Bernie Sanders is history. Sleepy Joe Biden is pulling ahead and think about it, I'm only here because of Sleepy Joe and the man who took him off the 1% trash heap, President O! China wants Sleepy Joe BADLY!"
President Trump's rip into "Sleepy Joe" comes after reports Biden and his son Hunter had ties to business deals with China.
Amid a trade war with China, the world's second-largest economy and a country with a population almost four times the United States, Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore warned Sunday of the dangers of putting a "China apologist" in the White House.
Still, Biden leads Sen. Sanders by almost 20 percentage points in RealClearPolitics national average of polls. A field of around two dozen Democratic primary candidates are jockeying for position to face off against Biden, former President Barack Obama's running mate.
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