President Donald Trump on Friday predicted that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former vice president Joe Biden, or “SleepyCreepy Joe,” as Trump called him, are the front-runners for the Democratic nomination.
“Looks to me like it’s going to be SleepyCreepy Joe over Crazy Bernie. Everyone else is fading fast!” Trump tweeted early Friday morning.
The president previously dubbed Biden “Sleepy Joe,” and has unfavorably compared him to Sanders in recent interviews.
Biden is “not as smart as Bernie, and he’s not as quick,” Trump said on Boston Herald Radio last week, although in the same interview he admitted, “in many ways, I like” Biden.
He explained some of his reasoning behind the nickname in an interview with Sean Hannity last month.
“I thought to refer to him as Sleepy Joe, because a lot of people wanted me to take the word ‘sleepy’ to something that rhymes with it. Does that make sense to you? And I thought it was too nasty,” Trump said.
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