India, Aug. 8 -- Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and influential "War Room" host, is quietly exploring an audacious bid for the US presidency in 2028 - a move that could ignite a bitter civil war inside Donald Trump's populist "Make America Great Again" movement.

Well-placed sources have stated to Daily Mail that Bannon, 71, has begun soliciting political advice as he tests the waters for a White House run. His likely rival? Vice President JD Vance - a Trump-endorsed favorite already seen by many as the natural successor to the former president.

A Bannon-Vance primary would pit the original architect of the MAGA movement against its institutional inheritor. Sources say Bannon has privately dismissed Vance's ability to ...