The White House is denying President Trump’s gushing remarks about Rep. Elise Stefanik at an Oval Office event Friday are a new move toward a primary endorsement.

Stefanik scored the prime position behind the president in an Oval Office photo op Friday, celebrating the US Olympic hockey team’s “Miracle On Ice” in Lake Placid, which is part of her congressional district.

The congresswoman was positioned just behind the president, standing out among a group of cowboy hat-wearing former college athletes who pulled off the ultimate upset against the Soviet Olympic team in 1980.

Trump talked up Stefanik and mentioned her race against Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman — tipping the scales a tad against the Trump friend who launched his own campaign just four days earlier.

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