New reporting from CNN today revealed that MAGA extremist Sam Brown flew to Mar-A-Lago last week to beg Donald Trump for his endorsement in the “increasingly nasty Republican Senate primary” that’s “divided those in former President Donald Trump’s orbit.”

This comes on the heels of Brown’s right-wing media tour where he claimed Donald Trump was the reason he’s running for Senate, and amid the threat of a multi-million dollar ad buy from his opponent, former Trump ambassador Jeff Gunter. 

Catch up on how these two MAGA extremists are duking it out for the disgraced former president’s endorsement: 

CNN: Trump world divided on Nevada Senate race as Sam Brown seeks endorsement from the former president 

- An increasingly nasty Republican Senate primary in Nevada has divided those in former President Donald Trump’s orbit.

- The race against incumbent Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is expected to be one of the county’s most competitive and is one of the only contests on which Trump and the National Republican Senatorial Committee are not publicly aligned.

- Brown met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week to seek his endorsement, two sources familiar with the interaction told CNN.

- Brown has drawn the ire of many of Trump’s staunchest supporters, who instead are privately encouraging the former president to back Dr. Jeffrey Gunter, his former ambassador to Iceland.

- Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz held a rally for Gunter in Nevada last weekend, and far-right activists and Mar-a-Lago regulars Laura Loomer and Roger Stone have railed against Brown on social media for his ties to more mainstream Republicans.

- While Brown door-knocked for Trump in 2020, he later appeared to distance himself from the former president, declining to tell Punchbowl News in an August interview whether he would be “comfortable with sharing the GOP ticket with Trump in Nevada.” He eventually endorsed Trump before the Iowa caucuses.

- In another sign of more mainstream support, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell attended a fundraiser for Brown last year.

- All of this information has been shared with Trump by Brown’s critics in an effort to stop any potential endorsement, sources told CNN.

- Sources close to Gunter and Brown each insisted that Trump’s top campaign officials were on their side and that they believed there was a chance the former president would endorse their candidate.