Pres. Trump says the idea was Sec. Pompeo's, just one day after Pompeo's spokesperson denied that he was planning to resign to run for the seat.
Despite his repeated denials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he would run for the open Senate seat from Kansas if the Republican Party were in danger of losing, according to President Donald Trump.
"He came to me and said, 'Look, I would rather stay where I am,' but he loves Kansas. He loves the people of Kansas. If he thought that there was a chance of losing that seat, I think he would do that, and he would win in a landslide," Trump told the Fox News morning program"Fox and Friends" in an extended phone interview.
But the rumors have been fueled by Pompeo's own travel schedule, visiting the state four times this year. It's also drawn scrutiny from Congress. The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., wrote a letter to the Office of Special Counsel, asking for an investigation into whether Pompeo's travel has violated the Hatch Act.
But he's made no secret of his political ambitions, particularly running for president. He told"The Sunflower," the Wichita State University student newspaper,"If the opportunity presented itself where I thought that was the case, I'd certainly think about it."
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