Who will replace Karoline Leavitt as the next White House press secretary?

Karoline Leavitt’s abrupt departure has sparked a tough race inside Trump’s circle for the prominent position Karoline Leavitt’s surprise resignation as the White House press secretary is set to trigger a sharp-elbowed race inside Donald Trump’s world for one of the most prominent positions in the Trump administration. Several names have circulated since the US president announced that Leavitt would step down at the end of the month to spend more time with her family. Here are some of the possible contenders. Cheung currently serves as the White House communications director, and has worked closely with Leavitt throughout the second Trump administration. When he praised the outgoing press secretary for her tenure on Wednesday, Leavitt joked on social media that the pair had survived “many, many news cycles” together. Habba is a loyal ally of the president who served as his personal lawyer before becoming a short-lived US attorney for New Jersey. A federal judge ultimately ruled her appointment was unlawful. But Habba has been one of the president’s most vocal defenders on conservative outlets. According to the New York Post, citing sources within the administration, Habba is an ear