Posted on 01/07/2020 3:32:41 AM PST by DoodleDawg
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he won't run for Senate in 2020, a source close to McConnell told Fox News on Monday.
Pompeo has been urged by Republicans to consider a run for the open seat in Kansas to replace outgoing Republican Sen. Pat Roberts. Pompeo represented in Congress from 2011 to 2017 before Trump appointed him to lead the CIA and later the State Department.
In recent days, Pompeo himself has stoked speculation that he might run, including by making numerous visits to Kansas in 2019 and creating new personal Twitter and Instagram accounts. The Wall Street Journal noted that Pompeo posted a photo of his meeting with the Kansas Farm Bureau, which holds significant power in the state.
"Leader McConnell spoke with Secretary Pompeo this afternoon where he indicated he will not be running for Senate," the source told Fox News. "Leader McConnell believes Secretary Pompeo is doing an incredible job as Secretary of State and is exactly where the country needs him to be right no
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Pompeo will make a fine President or VP in 2024.
I’m more worried about the Kansas senate seat in 2020. Kobach is the only Republican in the state other than Brownback who could possibly lose to a Democrat. And Brownback would still have a better chance.
What a short news cycle we would have if it wasn't for all of the leakers.
Let's give them a great big hand and thank them
GOP overtures? I think only reason anyone wants him in senate is to take him out of good job he is doing now!, get him in senate and make him compromised somehow.
He is on track to be the most significant SecState in decades. We can keep that Senate seat.
Can we keep it? Yes. Will we keep it? Remains to be seen.
And you’re from where in Kansas?
I'm not. I'm from Missouri but my sister and her family live in Leawood.
And it doesn't take a genius to know that the Kansas GOP is in trouble with Kobach as the Senate nominee. All you have to do is look at the 2018 governors race where he lost the 8 largest counties in terms of population by an average of 17 points. Why should the Senate race be any different. Eastern Kansas hates Kobach with a passion and that's where most of the population is.
Why would he take a lower office? He already President of the Deep State of America.
Working in area and national politics as I have for more than thirty years, I might also mention that Missouri pols, law firms and Planned Parenthood, not the least of which almost all “newspapers” comfortable in smearing any non-liberal KS politician and has caused no end to our are politics both in the 3rd District and in KS in general.
I might also mention politics in general within the parties: we have fully three (3) parties in KS but two (2) link up to defeat one (1) lone Conservative party in the general election!
Whenever a primary occurs in KS, GOP liberals put forward candidates that are more tune with Chuck Schumer and Dick Durban than MO Senator Josh Hawley, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan.
That being said, once a Primary election is over, if and when a solid conservative wins, this same wing (some are even now calling it a party) supports with their money and votes for the genuine liberal Democrat, even crossing the state line from MO to vote in the KS election!
History of both MO and KS politics: if you wanted to get elected in MO, you ran as a Democrat and in KS you grabbed the mantle of the GOP!
I once asked GOP KS senator Nancy L. Kassebaum why she claimed she was a “fiscal Republican” in KS when she voted as Teddy Kennedy in DC!
Of course, she had no answer for me.
The Kansas GOP seems to be separated by one thing, abortion. If you are anti-abortion, you are a “dangerous far right extremist”; if you are pro-abortion, you are an “acceptable moderate” who will be happy to “reach across the (liberal) aisle,” acceptable to all the lawyers, bankers, editorial writers at the local rags but most importantly, in both KS abut also MO and DC Democrat leaders!
Regardless, I'm well acquainted with the incongruities of the two wings of the Republican party in Kansas and the opportunities that has provided in the past for Democrats. And one has to wonder if that will impact the Senate race in 2020. Let's face it, in addition to being a lousy campaigner Kris Kobach is detested by Democrats, the moderate wing of the Republican party, and a fair slice of the independents. He was badly beaten in a three way race against basically two Democrats in 2018. He lost the 8 most populous counties in the state by 15 to 20 points on average. I know the history of Kansas being willing to elect Democrats as governor and sticking solidly with Republicans for Senator, but I submit that with a candidate like Kobach past history is out the window. I realize 2020 is a presidential election year and turnout will be higher that it was in 2018, but that could hurt Kobach as much as it helps him. In short, with Pompeo I think you would agree that the Kansas seat would be a GOP lock. With Kobach I honestly think that there is a even chance that the seat could be lost.
Even if he did (which won’t be happening no matter their pipe dreams) the libs would be all over him as a Trump lackey, nuts, evil, liar and despicable! The dims would haul in a Hollywierd actors, commies from the State Department and maybe even Obama!
Dims would stop at nothing to destroy a Mike Pompeo and his entire family!
Why even the KS “mods” and “independents” would all of a sudden learn what an evil guy has been all these years!
Even your sister from liberal South Leawood would probably decide even holding her nose couldn’t get her to vote for him, maybe staying home to let a dim win!
LOL! You do know my sister.
I'm thinking of the Republicans and independents who would not vote for Kobach under any circumstances, but who might vote for Pompeo. That number could be considerable.
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