Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo teased but did not announce a run at the White House in 2024 during a speakers series event held Tuesday in New Hampshire that’s known for hosting presidential hopefuls.
“Thanks for having an unemployed former diplomat out today,” Pompeo said in Manchester. “Today I get a chance to speak from the heart.”
For two decades, almost every candidate to take a primary debate stage in the months before a presidential election has made a trip to New Hampshire’s Queen City for an appearance at St. Anselm College’s Politics & Eggs speaker series.
Pompeo used his visit this week to lay the groundwork for a run at the nation’s top job, channeling both former President Ronald Reagan and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during his speech, and taking specific aim at a recent speech by President Biden.
“I’m here because a few weeks ago, the president of the United States gave a speech and smeared half the country as enemies of the state. He essentially said if you’re pro-life or you oppose his policies, you’re a threat. I’m here because I’m not going to let that just slide by. I’m going to stand up for the Americans that the president attacked. Because America deserves better than that,” he said.
Pompeo went on to describe Biden as too weak to lead the nation, a weakness he said is too prevalent in the United States today.
“And while none of us know the president’s heart, we do know his ideology. Because we see the impact every day. I can sum up the president’s principles in three words: woke, weak, and waffling,” he said.
Pompeo’s visit follows a stop there in August by former Vice President Mike Pence, whose own White House ambitions have been noted and whose relationship with his former boss is known to be, to put it lightly, contentious.
Pompeo has been making plenty of signals of his own lately.
A political action committee associated with the former CIA director recently launched ads in the early Republican primary states of South Carolina and Iowa, in which Pompeo expresses his support for more religious liberty.
“Let’s make sure our religious freedom and our right to pray are never canceled,” Pompeo says in the ad.
On Tuesday Pompeo acknowledged his appearance in New Hampshire was suggestive of a pending campaign, but said he and his wife wouldn’t make any announcements about his future until after the midterms.
“I’m here. This is not random. Susan and me are thinking about what the right place for us to continue the fight that I spoke about today is. I believe in this country we’re fighting for. Whether we’ll decide to get in the race and run for president I can’t answer,” he said. “We are doing the things that one would do to be ready to make such an announcement.”
Elected three times to represent Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives, Pompeo is also a veteran of the U.S. Army and graduated top of his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
His name has been, for the most part, conspicuously absent from the many investigations that surround the 45th president, though he has, according to reporting, appeared before the January 6th committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“What makes America exceptional is the people in this room,” Pompeo told the audience of eventual, first-in-the-nation primary voters.
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Biden is ‘woke, weak and waffling
Don’t forget Criminal.
Those 3 words pretty much define Biden. Of course we know old senile Joe isn’t really calling the shots, it’s whoever is behind the curtain telling Biden what to say and do.If we don’t purge all democrats from our government these next two election cycles, then our republic will cease to exist.
That defines the whole bloody DNC, and a good chunk of the RNC.
I can sum up the president’s principles in three words: woke, (racist) weak,(Tinkerbelle) and waffling(liar).
Do you think that the Tinkerbell PinocchiObama is still the master of the corrupt, puppet president Joe Biden?
Seems like a lot of the Tinkerbell PinocchiObama’s agendas are popping up again. Do you remember Obama’s solar cell manufacturing Con? Where Obama gave solar cell manufactures loans, grants and tax exemptions, then the same solar cell manufactures gave Obama’s political campaign tons of money and when Obama got elected president, the same solar cell manufactures went out of business.
Does the “Green New Deal” and the electric vehicles that we will be forced to buy, even though the electrical grid won’t be able to supply enough electricity to recharge the billions of electric vehicle that we will be forced to by, sound just like the Obama’s solar cell Con.
I hope all the dem-rats are proud of themselves for voting this Babbling Idiot into office. . His VP is dumber than he is. Now we’re stuck with 2 more years of these morons destroying the country.
Did you not see Biden walking at the queens Funeral he Barely made it he was walking like a very old 90 year old man. I don’t think he’ll make it another 4 years. We have Kamala Harris. Who could take over ?? That’s Scary as hell . Another democrats needs to step up. Or God help us with kamala.
AND how would pompeo be any different?
Anyone who understands the liberal “game plan” can see how Biden politics fits the mold. I finally got the picture during the 90s when I heard the phrase “the dumbing down of America.” If you remember the Hitler youth corp, or, the Taliban schools, same idea, and it has worked. The wokes, snowflakes, thugs, and immigrants all have an important role in the plan. The media is a big plus for those pushing the plan, they keep Trump in the fire and protect Biden. A Chinese man made a statement, “Socialism is only the first step.”