Asked how long he plans to be in his role, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells a crowd in Kansas, 'I'm going to be there until he tweets me out of office.'
Pompeo is addressing the Road to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Overland Park – a State Department-run event in partnership with the Netherlands before they host the full summit in June. Last week, he spoke at an energy conference in Texas and theBut while there's been speculation that he will run to be Kansas's senator in 2020 or governor in 2022, Pompeo himself has tried to downplay that.
"But I know this much, I've seen a lot of the world and I dearly love the people of Kansas," he added. But despite saying he tries to "avoid ruling things out," Pompeo did just that on a Senate bid, telling NBC News in February, "It's ruled out... I'm going to be the Secretary of State as long as President Trump gives me the opportunity to serve as America's senior diplomat."
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