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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPompous Pompeo apparently running for POTUS in 2024
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-pompeo-fundraising-2024-rumors/Mike Pompeo is making inroads with large New York Republican donors as he funds his super PAC "Champion American Values," reported CNBC on Thursday.
Pompeo has been traveling to early primary and caucus states like Iowa to New Hampshire but also to states like Texas and Nebraska. He'll certainly need it, according to the latest conservative straw poll, support for Pompeo fell behind Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
"He's basically already running for the presidency," one person familiar with the meetings told CNBC.
Let the games begin.
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Pompous Pompeo apparently running for POTUS in 2024 (Original Post)
yellowcanine
Jun 2021
OP
Pompeo grabbing all the money he can is my take on this. He has zero chance.
NoMoreRepugs
Jun 2021
#4
Bayard
(22,083 posts)1. Is this the Onion?
EYESORE 9001
(25,941 posts)2. Sweet Fancy Moses
Scraping the bottom of the barrel already.
Haggard Celine
(16,846 posts)3. He was running for President when
he was Secretary of State. He was having big, expensive dinners for donors, soliciting donations. I don't know for sure who paid for the dinners, but I suspect it was you and me.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)4. Pompeo grabbing all the money he can is my take on this. He has zero chance.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)5. Congrats on the cool subject line!
Poopeo is a real piece of shit. If we still have a democracy, he'll be quickly flushed.
ShazamIam
(2,574 posts)6. And Pompeo's "values," can be defined as race driven extremist Christian and segregationist.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)7. Goody
moondust
(19,989 posts)8. Of course he is.
It's been rather obvious for years that that's been his ambition all along (with the backing of the Kochs).
kentuck
(111,099 posts)9. His campaign slogan will be:
I sucked Trump's ass better than anyone.
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)10. The GOP primary will be quite a circus in 2024.