Hey, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director, and this is the Daily D.C.

Thanks so much for listening. Today on the podcast, Biden versus Trump, is that the general election we're already looking at?

Well, from the president's point of view, it seems to be the case.

Despite the fact that Joe Biden has 19 competitors for the Democratic nomination, and yes, he sits atop that field, no doubt.

Donald Trump seems to have taken to Biden as an opponent more so than any other Democrat that has entered this race thus far.

And it seems that President Trump is eager and ready and fully committed to engaging on 2020 now.

So there were about four tweets today.

I'll just read through them from the president.

I'll never get the support of

dues crazy union leadership, those people who rip off their membership with ridiculously high

dues, medical and other expenses while being paid a fortune. But the members love Trump. They look at

our record, economy, tax and regulation cuts,, military, et cetera, win, exclamation point.

The media, parentheses, fake news, is pushing Sleepy Joe, his nickname for Biden, hard.

Funny, I'm the only, I'm only here because of Biden and Obama.

They didn't do the job.

And now you have Trump, who is getting it done big time.

He goes on, sleepy Joe Biden is having his first rally in the great state of Pennsylvania.

He obviously doesn't know that Pennsylvania is having one of the best economic years in its history with lowest unemployment ever and now thriving steel industry

that was dead and great future. The dues-sucking firefighters leadership will always support

Democrats even though the membership wants me. Some things never change. So four tweets off of Joe Biden's schedule today in Pittsburgh. He got the

endorsement of the Firefighters Union, which we'll get to in a moment, clearly under the

president's skin. And I will just say, this has now been since Biden's debut. Biden had that

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