Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he will not run for an open Senate seat from Kansas this fall, two people close to McConnell said Monday
WASHINGTON — . Pompeo's decision complicates Republicans' chances of holding what should be a guaranteed seat in the deep red state as they battle to retain their slim Senate majority in November's elections.
A former congressman from Kansas, Pompeo has traveled repeatedly to the state in recent months, and many Washington Republicans had expressed a belief that he would be a candidate. Republicans consider retaining the Kansas seat crucial in this fall's voting, when they will defend their 53-47 Senate majority. GOP senators in Arizona, Colorado, Maine and North Carolina face potentially tight reelection contests, while Doug Jones of Alabama is the Democrat in greatest danger of defeat.
McConnell and other top Republicans have been eager for Pompeo to run for the Senate.Just last month, Trump called Pompeo “a tremendous guy doing a tremendous job" and said if he thought the Kansas seat were in peril for Republicans,"I would sit down and talk to Mike.”
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