Democratic candidates have joined the 2020 race in hopes of ultimately facing off against Trump in the general election, Weld is the first potential primary challenger to the President.

Weld will face an uphill battle in his efforts to take down Trump. History shows that presidents generally only face serious primary challenges when their approval rating within their own party is at 75% or below. Trump is currently far above this threshold.

Trump recently scored an 89% approval rating among Republicans nationally in a Gallup poll. Even in New Hampshire, where Weld is expected to base much of his campaign effort, Trump showed a similarly strongly 83% approval rating with Republicans in a late October University of New Hampshire poll.

"The truth is that we've wasted an enormous amount of timeby humoring this President, indulging him in his narcissism and his compulsive irrational behaviors," Weld said Friday, saying Republicans in Washington show "the symptoms of Stockholm syndrome."

He added, "The situation is not yet hopeless, but we do need a mid-course correction."

Weld has had a unique political path. He served as a two-term Massachusetts governor during the early 1990s and later lost the 1996 US Senate race in Massachusetts against John Kerry.

He resigned as governor in 1997 after Democratic President Bill Clinton nominated him to be US ambassador to Mexico. Weld withdrew his name after he was blocked by then-chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Sen. Jesse Helms, R-North Carolina, from getting a Senate nomination hearing.

Weld later moved to New York and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for