After months of speculation, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Friday that he will not seek the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
During a recent interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Pompeo revealed he and his wife had “come to the conclusion that we’re not going to join the race in 2024.”
“[W]hile we care deeply about America and the issues that I have been talking about this last year-and-a-half and, frankly, for decades, matter an awful lot, this isn’t our moment,” Pompeo said. The former secretary of state also released a pre-recorded video announcing the decision, adding that “the time is just not right.”
When pressed by Baier on who he plans to support in the 2024 GOP primary, Pompeo declined to answer, saying he will back whoever the nominee is and that the primary should not be “about any one person.”
“I want to find that person who can not only talk about the things that matter to every family in America but who can actually build an organization, create a team, and deliver that for the American people,” he said. “And when I figure out who that right person is, I will … get behind them and do everything I can to help them.”
GOP presidential primary polling has regularly shown Pompeo with minuscule support among potential 2024 voters. In a recent survey, for example, only 1 percent of registered New Hampshire voters threw their support behind Pompeo, compared to 42 percent who said they’d
