Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo is planning to challenge Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed Monday morning on CNN that Pompeo has directly told the former president that he intends to run regardless of Trump's plans.
"At the moment, what I'm hearing from a bunch of other Republicans privately, again, they're not saying it publicly, that's the asterisk here," Haberman said, "but they are saying privately Trump is not a factor. Mike Pompeo has told a number of people he told Trump directly he will run even if Trump runs. Did he get annoyed? No one knows the conversation between them, but he said other Republicans are signaling Mike Pence. He will have a hard time running, as would Mike Pompeo for the same reason, but I think what you're seeing more often than not, Republicans signal that they're going to do what they want."
"That said," she added, "Trump is the 800-pound gorilla in this race."
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