Biden: Trump Opposes Nomination 'Because I Will Beat Him'

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed in an interview Thursday that President Donald Trump does not want him to become Democrats' nominee "because I will beat him. Period."

"I think the one thing the president doesn't want to do, from the very beginning, is face me," Biden told NBC "Today" anchor Savannah Guthrie.

Biden pointed out Trump's impeachment earlier this year after the House filed articles of impeachment on the president on claims he'd pushed Ukraine's government to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter. 

"He has done everything in his power, he's even risked his presidency because he doesn't want to face me," Biden told Guthrie.

"Have you ever, ever seen a sitting president get so involved in a Democratic primary and focus so much attention on not wanting a single person, me, to become the nominee? he added. "The president does not want me to be the nominee."

Biden also said he thinks Trump will continue coming after him, particularly now that he's the frontrunner for the nomination.

"There's no there there," Biden said. "Donald Trump has pummeled the middle class, has embraced dictators and poked his thumb in the eye of our allies. Donald Trump is a disaster. He knows it. He knows I'm going to be able to point him out. I can hardly wait to debate him."

He also accused Trump of having "corrupted the soul of the country." 

Meanwhile, Biden has now been endorsed by several key Democrats, including his former rivals for the nomination, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, and former Mayors Pete Buttigieg and Mike Bloomberg, but he said he does not think it's time for ex-President Barack Obama to come forward and endorse him. 

"Imagine having endorsed me and we won as big as we did yesterday," said Biden. "You'd all be saying I won because of Barack. I'm winning because of me. I'm going to earn this on my own."

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