President Donald Trump had a private assembly Monday with tighten advisors during a White House to plead a far-reaching operation of topics, including a 2020 presidential choosing — and concerns about presumably confronting former Vice President Joe Biden, CNBC has learned.

At a meeting, a boss seemed to prove to some of his confidants that he is endangered about a awaiting of confronting Biden, according to one chairman who attended a entertainment and declined to be named. In particular, Trump asked either he should be endangered about Biden potentially capturing a Democratic nomination, according to people with approach trust of a matter.

Trump had reportedly voiced regard during a 2018 midterm debate about potentially confronting Biden, nonetheless a boss has pronounced publicly that he isn’t worried.

The advisors told Trump that they’re not assured Biden would interest to a Democratic Party’s left wing or make it by a primary. They also told a boss they trust Biden’s opponents will contend he’s out of hold with a bottom of his possess party. Biden, who leads in several primary polls of Democratic voters, has pronounced that he’s in a “final stages” of determining either he will run for president.

When asked because a boss spoke about Biden, one of a people with trust of a entertainment told CNBC that a former clamp boss “is a slightest crazy out of all” a intensity Democratic 2020 candidates. This chairman forked to Biden’s some-more assuage viewpoints compared with those of other Democrats using or deliberation entering a race.

Another chairman informed with a sell brushed it off observant “no conclusions were reached,” and that Trump is “gonna win in 2020 regardless.”

Trump has ripped Biden for deliberation a 2020 run. In a new Fox News interview, a boss pronounced he’s not endangered about a Democratic field.

“I’m not worried. So distant we adore a competition, we adore what we see,” Trump pronounced in January. When asked during a time whom he would like to run against, Trump didn’t dedicate to a sold claimant though went on to call Biden “weak” and claimed President Barack Obama “took him off a rabble heap” when he chose him to be his clamp boss in 2008.

A White House mouthpiece referred CNBC to a Trump campaign. Kayleigh McEnany, a Trump campaign’s press secretary, did not lapse steady requests for comment. Biden’s orator declined to comment.

The initial contests of a primary are underneath a year away, while a initial Democratic debates are slated for after this year. Early polls uncover Biden is a favorite among Democratic primary electorate and might have an advantage over a boss in a one-on-one election.

In a 2018 POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, Biden led in a head-to-head matchup with Trump. Forty-four percent of electorate pronounced they would collect a former Delaware lawmaker, while Trump perceived support from 37 percent. The consult was of 1,993 purebred electorate from Jul 26 to Jul 30.

Biden is heading in many of a inhabitant polls of a intensity Democratic field, including a Morning Consult consult that shows him with 31 percent of early primary electorate observant they would behind him if he runs. Behind him are Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. The check has a domain of blunder of and or reduction 1 percent.

The Biden dilemma

Political strategists from both sides of a aisle have churned views about either a boss and his group should be disturbed about Biden entering a 2020 race.

Democratic domestic strategist Mary-Anne Marsh questioned either a third time will be a attract for a former clamp boss after he unsuccessful to make it by a primary a dual other times he ran for a White House.

“I consider a biggest doubt is: Will Joe Biden be a improved claimant when he runs this time compared to a dual other times? He never done it to a general. So we consider that’s a large question,” pronounced Marsh, who worked on campaigns for Sens. John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. “Biden doesn’t interest to activists who dominated in 2016 and quite a 2018 cycle. They are progressive, some-more women and people of color, and Biden’s space are expected older, masculine and white.”

Biden, who represented Delaware in a U.S. Senate for some-more than 3 decades, ran for boss in 1988 and 2008.

A pivotal Biden strength that could assistance him in a 2020 foe is his ability on a stump. Democratic operatives concerned with a 2018 midterms were beholden for Biden’s assistance on a debate route as a celebration took behind a infancy in a House of Representatives.

“Biden would be a outrageous problem for President Trump in a ubiquitous election. Look during a midterms. He campaigned opposite a nation and was a outrageous hit,” pronounced Tyler Law, former inhabitant press secretary for a Democratic Congressional Campaign. Biden, for instance, went to Pennsylvania during a special choosing and helped Democrat Conor Lamb lift off a feat in a Republican-held district.

Other strategists see former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s preference not to run as an event for Biden.

“With a proclamation [Tuesday] from Bloomberg that he is not running, we consider there is even some-more of an opening for Biden in a Democratic primary,” pronounced Christian Ferry, who worked as a emissary debate manager for Republican Sen. John McCain’s 2008 run for president. “Biden can interest to working-class Democrats who felt no tie to Hillary Clinton and independents who would be frightened of a some-more on-going nominee.”

According to a many new Gallup poll, Trump has an capitulation of 90 percent with Republican electorate though he continues to onslaught with eccentric voters. Only 35 percent of independents behind him. In 2016, he won eccentric electorate with a slight domain over Clinton.

Overall, Gallup shows 43 percent of participants approve of a president’s opening during his initial term, while 54 percent disapprove. A Quinnipiac check in December, meanwhile, showed that 53 percent of electorate hold a auspicious perspective of Biden, while 33 percent saw him unfavorably.