McConnell courting Pompeo to run for an open Senate seat in Kansas

[DonViejo]

By Sean Sullivan and
Josh Dawsey January 17 at 10:43 PM

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has personally courted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to consider running for an open Senate seat in Kansas, according to people familiar with the effort, a move that could anger President Trump and further roil his tumultuous Cabinet.

Senate GOP leaders have been so dedicated to recruiting Pompeo that McConnell directly urged him to consider it in a recent telephone call, according to two people familiar with the conversation, which has not been previously reported.

By the time Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) announced this month that he was retiring, GOP leaders were eyeing Pompeo. In the hours ahead of Roberts’s announcement, their allies were talking up Pompeo.

But Trump does not want to lose Pompeo and sees him as his favorite Cabinet member, according to two people familiar with his thinking. It was unclear whether he was aware of the conversation between McConnell and Pompeo. A White House representative did not immediately respond late Thursday to a request for comment.

Pompeo, who has risen through the ranks in Washington from congressman to CIA director and now the head of the State Department, has not publicly ruled out a run.

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[Iliyah]

1. McTurtle knows Pompeo's time is up being

SOS because of t-rump's (hoping earlier departure) from the USA.

[Siwsan]

2. I think Mitch is very worried that seat will go Blue.

Fingers crossed his worries won't be in vain. More fingers crossed that the same will happen to Mitch's seat.

[bdamomma]

3. Mitch's own seat

may be going blue too. He needs to go, all of the repigs who are involved with Russian interference need to go.

[beachbum bob]

4. IF Chris Kobach runs in the primary, he has enough teaparty support to win against

about any other GOP candidate, especially if the field is crowded/ McConnel KNOWS that a Kobach candidacy is another very likely democratic pickup in Kansas

[C_U_L8R]

5. Yup. They're planning for Trump's departure.

Do you think the Orange L'oaf will get the hint?

[democratisphere]

6. Pompeo is an overcooked wet noodle yes man.

Just the kind of guy Moscow Mitch would love to control.

[bullwinkle428]

7. "sees him as his favorite Cabinet member" : i.e., biggest ass-kisser.

[Golden Raisin]

8. McConnell has time to position Pompeo for Kansas

but not to re-open Government. Total partisan hack and scumbag.