it summit of the autocrats. it was bad. so by the new york times trolling the word treason on the front page. there was a story about how this was the last straw for the republicans who had backed trump. that was the other lead story on the front page of the times that day about how trump s base had been rattled by his behavior with putin. it was a real open question whether a mistake this bad could have electoral implications for the president when he was up for reelection in 2020. and trump was apparently worried about losing the presidency, and weeks after that meeting. not because of the putin debacle, this was the headline at axios right after the putin summit, trump fears biden 2020, losing pennsylvania. now again, this was july of 2018. joe biden would not enter the race for another nine months. donald trump was spooked just by the idea, the idea of a head to head matchup with joe biden
and trump was, apparently, worried about losing the presidency in the weeks after that meeting but not because of the putin debacle. this was the headline at axios right after the putin summit. quote, trump fears biden 2020, losing pennsylvania. now, again, this was july of 2018. joe biden would not enter the race for another nine months. donald trump was spooked just by the idea, the idea, of a head-to-head match with joe biden in 2020. the month before joe biden announced he was running, donald trump convened a meeting at the white house to discuss, with his advisers, whether or not he should be concerned about facing biden in the general election. people inside the white house said trump was fixated on biden, before he even entered the race and on what he could do to stop him from becoming the democratic nominee. and, of course, we know how that fixation, ultimately, manifested itself. on july 25th, 2019, one year, to the day, after that first-press