Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses an assemblage during an lawsuit astatine Saint Anselm College successful Manchester, N.H., Sept. 20, 2022. | Steven Senne/AP Photo
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that Donald Trump’s expected announcement of a 2024 tally for president volition not interaction his ain reasoning connected mounting a White House campaign.
“What happens contiguous oregon tomorrow, what immoderate different idiosyncratic decides won’t person immoderate interaction connected that,” Pompeo told blimpish speech vigor big Hugh Hewitt connected Tuesday morning.
Trump is expected to denote his bid for different word arsenic president connected Tuesday evening during a prime-time lawsuit astatine Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home. But the erstwhile president’s iron-clad grip connected the Republican Party has appeared to weaken implicit the past week arsenic Trump-backed candidates successful galore winnable midterm races failed to seizure House, Senate and gubernatorial seats. Heading into his announcement, immoderate of Trump’s staunchest allies had yet to endorse him successful the 2024 race.
Pompeo, Trump’s erstwhile caput of State and a imaginable 2024 statesmanlike candidate, had antecedently said a Trump bid for president wouldn’t support him from running. He doubled down connected that presumption connected Tuesday portion besides seemingly taking a swipe astatine Trump up of his planned announcement aboriginal this evening, saying the erstwhile president would request to “explain wherefore helium thinks helium should beryllium that adjacent president” and speech astir “things that substance to the American people.”
“I served successful the administration, I’m arrogant of the policies we laid out,” Pompeo said. “We request much seriousness, we request little noise, we request dependable hands, we request leaders that are looking forward, not staring successful the rearview reflector claiming victimhood.”
Pompeo said helium would apt marque a determination astir moving by the spring.
“These are profoundly idiosyncratic decisions and we volition benignant our mode and arsenic soon arsenic we person figured it out, we volition fto the American radical know,” Pompeo said.
Former Vice President Mike Pence — different imaginable Republican contender for 2024 — echoed a akin sentiment to Pompeo’s successful a consequent interrogation with Hewitt connected Tuesday, indicating that Trump’s run announcement would not change his ain determination to tally for president. He said helium and his wife, Karen Pence, would “carefully consider” what relation they mightiness play successful the 2024 run and that they would apt travel to a determination successful the caller year.
“The lone determination Karen and I person made with respect to our aboriginal is that we’re not going to fto anyone other marque that determination for us,” the erstwhile vice president said.
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