Pompeo already burnt out?

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to meet with Sen. Pat Roberts in the near future amid a heavy recruitment by powerful Washington Republicans for Pompeo to run for Roberts’ seat.

A Senate run by Pompeo would reshuffle the race to replace Roberts in Kansas. It would also reshuffle President Donald Trump’s Cabinet — again — and have international implications.

  McClatchy

He's a job hopper, so maybe. Also, he's had the rug pulled out from under him on Syria by Trump, and can only expect further such humiliations in the position he's in. Plus, a Congressional seat is something he's already had and which could be parlayed to last longer than a cabinet post in the Trump White House.

Trump would need to appoint his third secretary of state to replace Pompeo, one of president’s most trusted and loyal lieutenants who has managed to avoid the scandals and upheaval that have pushed out other cabinet secretaries.

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Roberts’ office does not have any knowledge of whether Pompeo will seek the seat, but the senator joked Thursday about playing phone tag with Pompeo and other potential candidates.

“There’s about 15 so far. I’m counting. But the one who called me and said he will call me back — it was some guy they call the secretary of state,” Roberts said.

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Pompeo has roughly $1 million in his dormant federal campaign account. He won his last campaign for Congress in 2016 by 31 percentage points and would widely be considered the frontrunner if he runs.

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The Washington Post reported late Thursday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has personally asked Pompeo to consider a run.

He'll do it.

It would be an unusual move for Pompeo to give up his current job, which puts him fourth in line to the presidency and gives him an international stage, to become Kansas’ junior U.S. senator.

“Does he want to be a senator?” asked Mark Kahrs, Kansas Republican national committeeman. “Does he want to leave, candidly, the most important unelected post in the country, secretary of state? I think he has an opportunity to serve as secretary of state for seven years.”

I wouldn't bet on it.

The filing deadline for the race isn’t until June of 2020. Kelly Arnold, the Kansas Republican chair, said Pompeo could wait until then to declare his candidacy and expect to be the next senator in a state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932.

And 2020 could be the year that changes. Unless Pompeo runs. And even then.

Pompeo’s top supporter during his congressional career was Koch Industries, a company with large sway over Kansas Republican politics.

There are signs that might be changing, too.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.