After months of meddling in the Democratic primary with presidential tweets, campaign ads and behind-the-scenes oppo dumps, the president and his team are taking a break to let the nominating contest play out naturally and taking bets on when — not whether — it will devolve into an epic intra-party conflict.

“The campaign doesn’t have to do anything but step back and watch the Democrats demolish themselves,” said a GOP operative close to the Trump campaign. “This is like a dream scenario.”

“If you had asked me at the beginning of all of this which Democrats would be the weakest to run against from the moderate and the progressive lanes, the answers would have been Buttigieg and Bernie,” the operative added, pointing to the two candidates leading the Democratic field out of Iowa…

The president and his team have indeed used Bloomberg’s candidacy to sow chaos inside Democratic circles, accusing party elites at the helm of the Democratic National Committee of rigging the party’s primary to avoid crowning Sanders, a self-avowed “democratic socialist” and longtime critic of big money in politics, their 2020 nominee.