Trump told the New York Post that he hasn’t heard anything from a 2020 hopeful that worries him, and welcomed some of his potential challengers. “Fear? Fear? Do you mean fear or dream about?” he asked the Post. “I dream about them. So far, everyone that I’ve seen I’m dreaming about.”
Trump said he knew Gillibrand, who took over Hillary Clinton’s seat in the Senate in 2009 after representing an upstate district in the House, “very well” because he had donated to her “early on.”
“She’s the only person I’ve ever seen who loved guns more than any human being on earth when she was a congresswoman from upstate New York back then,” the president said. “
She loved guns more than any person, anywhere in the United States. The day she announced she was running for the Senate. All of the sudden, ‘Gun? I’ve never heard that word before.’” “She’s not going to make it, she’s not going to make it,” Trump predicted.
Booker is similarly not a threat to Trump’s reelection, he said. “He ran Newark into the ground. He did such a bad job in Newark that he didn’t live there. No, he’s not going to be a problem.”
Bloomberg has yet to announce whether he’ll throw his hat in the ring, but Trump had a trademark nickname for the former mayor at the ready. “I’d love to run against
Little Michael,” Trump said, noting that Bloomberg has poured money into causes and candidates in opposition to the president.
The only possible candidate Trump had nice words for was the one who had said he would not run. “I have a good relationship with him,” Trump said of Cuomo, who has been sharply critical of the president. “I like him. He likes me.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/trump-new-york-2020-contenders-1026106
