I always knew Joe Biden would end the Trump presidency

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21. President Trump was extraordinarily preoccupied with Joe Biden

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At home and abroad, on Twitter, at campaign rallies, in interviews and even from the White House lawn, Trump spent an inordinate amount of time deriding Biden and insisting that the former vice president could not be ahead of him in polls — despite the fact that Biden has led the president in general election matchups in every major poll conducted in 2019.

“I think he’s got a pretty clear pattern, doesn’t he? He usually only spends his capital on those that he views as a threat, or a challenge,” said Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Firefighters, which did not endorse a candidate for president in 2016. “I think our union coming out strongly on behalf of Joe Biden, cut him short at best ... It got under his skin.”

Trump’s predawn online tirade was a precursor to a period in which Biden appeared to occupy a remarkable amount of his attention. At a May 20 rally in Pennsylvania — the state where the former vice president was born — the president laced into the candidate who was then the undisputed front-runner in the Democratic field....

“The one thing the president is well aware of is that in his base there are a lot of Obama voters,” the aide said, alluding to what he said was the president’s perception that Biden threatened his hold on those voters. “They’re union members, they’re rank and file. A lot of those times, if they were campaigning, Obama would send Biden out there.”