Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Iowa on the 26th, denouncing Democrats for stealing power by illegal means and urging conservatives to strive to reclaim the Republican majority in the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections, thus ensuring that Republicans will be in the White House in the 2024 presidential election. As Iowa is one of the earliest states to vote, his trip has also sparked speculation that he will run for the next presidency.
The New York Times reported that Pompeo went to Urbandale, west of Des Moines, Iowa, to attend a breakfast meeting of the Westside Conservative Club. At the breakfast, Pompeo noted that the 2022 election has real implications for the final outcome in 2024. He emphasized that “if we turn things around in 2022, a victory in the 2024 election is a natural fit.” He said he intends to continue to campaign in several states with his wife to push for Republicans to reclaim their majority in next year’s midterm elections, in the most humane way possible, to ensure that total Democratic control of Washington is as short-lived as possible.
Since nearly half a century, Iowa belongs to one of the first four states to vote in the presidential election primary. Pompeo’s move has also sparked speculation that he intends to run for president. At the breakfast, Pompeo was asked if there would be a third West Point graduate for president. Pompeo is a West Point graduate, and before him, there were two presidents who graduated from West Point: one was Grant; the other was Eisenhower. Pompeo did not give a positive answer, saying only that his next stop would be Alabama, hoping that reports would then distract people from his coming to Iowa. His words sparked a chorus of laughter. Pompeo also noted that he had previously traveled to Texas and Nebraska to campaign for Republicans.
Pompeo also lashed out at House Democrats for ramming through a wide-ranging election reform and campaign finance bill along party lines, calling it a hard-line power grab.
Pompeo has maintained his conservative stance in the two months since leaving office, repeatedly criticizing the Biden administration’s policies, including those on China and immigration. He has also been a vocal critic of sex athletes and the so-called “Culture of abolition” movement.
Pompeo did not rule out the possibility that he might run in the 2024 presidential election in an interview with media outlet Hox earlier this month. Pompeo is a strong supporter of former President Trump and has been pushing Trump’s “America First” policy. However, Trump recently in an interview with Hershey News, in listing the names of what he considers to be the future leaders of the Republican Party, but did not mention Pompeo.
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