By COLlive reporter
Mike Pompeo, a former U.S. Secretary of State, announced on Friday that he will not run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
The ardent supporter and ally of Donald Trump declined to compete against his former commander-in-chief in a contest during an interview with Fox News.
“Susan and I have concluded, after much consideration and prayer, that I will not present myself as a candidate to become President of the United States in the 2024 election,” he wrote on Twitter.
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“The time is not right for me and my family,” he said in a statement. “At each stage of my public service — as a soldier, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and then as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and as your Secretary of State — I’ve been blessed to have the opportunity to advance America in a way that fit the time and the moment. This is not that time or that moment for me to seek elected office again.”
As the country’s top diplomat, Pompeo played a key role in orchestrating the 2020 Abraham Accords, facilitating peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and others. He has been known to defend Israel boldly.
Just this past week, Pompeo tweeted an article about how Iran’s Quds Force commander met with leaders of terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah to coordinate strikes against Israel.
“It’s not just Israel—Iran uses militias to target Americans in the Middle East,” he wrote. “Israel’s enemies are our enemies.”
Thus far, announcing their candidacy for the GOP nomination are former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, biotech investor Vivek Ramaswamy and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson.
President Joe Biden has implied that he will run for office again, stopping any significant challengers for the Democratic candidacy.
Id like to also announce I am not going to run for president.
I’d also like to let everyone here know that I’m officially not running
Shame! I am really disappointed 🙁
I’m not even going to WALK for president! Sorry to disappoint everyone.
No one should even try to run against trump, the greatest president ever was! He still is technically president because Biden stole it (but Biden is responsible for everything now) but he will win it again and purge this great country from democrats and gorge Soros!
yeagh but here sthe thing i just spoke to my daughter and we decided that i am going to be jogging for president so tell trump to pack his bags
OH! one more thing tell trump to leave my ovel office clean and to make his bed before he leaves