Barack Obama is apparently pulling for former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to run against Trump in the 2020 presidential election, though some believe it would be a disaster because of his strong ties to Wall Street.

Folks in Obama’s “inner circle” think Patrick would make a great candidate for the 2020 campaign and the former president himself even “privately encouraged him to think about it,” Politico reports.

Obama strategist David Axelrod has reportedly spoken to Patrick on multiple occasions about the possibility because his “small town campaign experience from his 2006 gubernatorial run that will jibe perfectly with Iowa, neighbor-state advantage in New Hampshire and the immediate bloc of votes he’d have as an African-American heading into South Carolina,” according to the site.

Valarie Jarrett, Obama’s former senior advisor, told Politico President Patrick is what “my heart desires.”

“If you were to poll 100 notable Obama alumni, the only two people who would win that 2020 straw poll right now are (former Vice President Joe) Biden and Patrick,” a former Obama aide said.

Another former Obama official said “the center of gravity would really shift in his direction in Obama world if he were to decide to run.”

Patrick, who served as Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015 and now works as an executive at Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, is saying all the right things to lay the groundwork.

“I’m trying to think about how to be helpful, because I care about the country, and I’m a patriot first. It’s way, way too soon to be making plans for 2020,” he told Politico’s podcast Off Message. “So I’ll just leave it at that.”

He also took a shot at Trump, of course.

“The president, I believe, is at risk of diminishing the voice of the presidency because he pops off so often, and so, kind of, carelessly,” he said. “I think there is a risk both domestically, and internationally for that matter, that we’ll begin to tune him out.”

Regardless, political pundits are already pointing out why Patrick could prove to be a terrible choice for a Democratic Party that’s currently torn between centrist and far left factions.

In a column for The Week, Ryan Cooper explained why several possible presidential contenders including California Sen. Kamala Harris, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Patrick could spell doom for Democrats in 2020.

“Patrick is least trusted of all because he actually works for Bain Capital as a managing director,” Cooper wrote. “If he were to run for president, as Obama’s inner circle is apparently urging him to do, President Trump would just have to copy-paste Obama’s 2012 ads.

“In other words, there are quite substantive reasons why a leftist might not trust any of those candidates,” he continued. “The probably accurate perception that all three candidates are being groomed by the same big-money donors that clustered around Hillary Clinton will only deepen the divide, because it suggests that – like pro-union rules, or the public option in Obamacare – any adoption of Sanders-style proposals are mostly bait to be cast aside when it comes time to actually pass something.”

The far-left Slate also attacked the President Patrick talk with the headline “We Need to Stop This ‘Deval Patrick 2020’ Nonsense Immediately.”

“You may remember Bain Capital as the private-equity company co-founded by Mitt Romney—as in, the Mitt Romney who Barack Obama (a Democrat) effectively attacked for enriching himself through mass layoffs during a 2012 election that many ‘Obama insiders’ should have at least a passing familiarity with,” Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley wrote.

“As it happens, many Obama voters—including those in, to name three states at random, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan—would go on to vote four years later not for the Democratic candidate whose insider connections and high-priced speeches to Goldman Sachs became a major campaign issue, but for the Republican candidate who made repeated and energetic (albeit totally dishonest) promises to stick it to the rich and powerful,” he continued. “Apparently Obama insiders do not have a passing familiarity with that election, but it was bad. It was a problem.”