Biden makes first New Hampshire visit as 2020 candidate as Trump ramps up attacks on ‘Sleepy Joe’ Joe Biden makes his first trip to New Hampshire as a 2020 presidential candidate The state holds the first presidential primary in February Biden's visit comes as President Trump ramps up attacks on him Trump is using derogatory names like 'Sleepy Joe' to attack Biden It's a strategy that worked for him in the 2016 Republican primary By Emily Goodin, U.s. Political Reporter In Manchester, N.h., For Dailymail.com Published: 16:00 BST, 13 May 2019 | Updated: 16:04 BST, 13 May 2019 Viewcomments Former Vice President Joe Biden makes his first trip to New Hampshire as a 2020 presidential candidate on Monday as President Donald Trump ramps ups his attacks against him. Trump has been handicapping the Democratic presidential field - an unprecedented interference by the head of one party into the primary election of another's. And he's launches a series of attacks via Twitter - his political weapon of choice - as Biden enjoys a bump in the polls after his official entry into the presidential field. Joe Biden makes his first trip to New Hampshire as a 2020 presidential candidate on Monday Biden's visit comes as President Trump ramps up attacks on him The former vice president will spend two days in the state that holds the first presidential primary. He'll make a 'community stop' at a bakery in Hampton and hold a town hall in Manchester on Monday followed by a house party in Nashua on Tuesday. Biden has enjoyed an early lead in the polls, including in the general election match up with Trump. The RealClearPolitics polling average has him leading the president by 7.3 per cent. Trump, meanwhile, has given his two cents on the field of contenders vying to take him on in 2020. The president has declared it a two-man race between Biden and Bernie Sanders and dubbed them with dismissive monikers - a strategy that worked for him when he used it against his political rivals in the 2016 Republican primary process. 'Looks to me like it’s going to be SleepyCreepy Joe over Crazy Bernie. Everyone else is fading fast!' Trump wrote on Twitter Friday. But it's Biden who is enduring a heavy dose of Trump's wrath as many Republicans fear he is the candidate that can defeat the president next November. 'China is DREAMING that Sleepy Joe Biden, or any of the others, gets elected in 2020. They LOVE ripping off America!,' the president tweeted on Sunday amid concerns Beijing would retaliate against his plan to raise tariffs on goods coming into America. On Monday morning he retweeted a tweet from Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel that slammed Biden: 'Joe Biden let China get away with cheating when he was Vice President, and he continues to naively dismiss China today.' Many Republicans are concerned Biden will appeal to the same blue-collar voters in the Midwest states - Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa - that helped put Trump in the Oval Office. The former vice president has made it his strategy to take on Trump from the start, blasting the president's leadership. 'I came here because, quite frankly folks, if I’m going to beat Donald Trump in 2020, it’s going to happen here,' Biden told union supporters at a Pittsburgh rally at the end of April. Trump, meanwhile, is using a strategy that worked for him in the 2016 primary: labeling his foe with derogatory names - like he labeled 'low energy' Jeb Bush and 'Little' Marco Rubio. Trump is giving Biden a derogatory nickname - a strategy that worked for him in the past with 'Crooked' Hillary Clinton and 'Low Energy' Jeb Bush Those attacks resulted in the candidates defending themselves against Trump's accusations and ultimately giving the New York businessman the presidential nomination. The nicknames strategy also worked because the names stick - Crooked Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth 'Pocahontas' Warren - and show the president's tendency to make contests about personalities rather than policy. Biden, meanwhile, will focus on his message of rebuilding the middle class and unifying the country during his New Hampshire stops. After his visit to the Granite State he'll hold a rally in Philadelphia on Saturday, May 18. Read more: Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility