Mike Pompeo announces he is not running for president in 2024 after criticizing Trump last month
- Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is not running for president in 2024, per ABC News.
- Pompeo hinted at a run in March, when he criticized the Trump administration's fiscal policy.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is not running for president in 2024, Pompeo announced on Fox News on Friday.
According to ABC News, Pompeo announced that he would not be running for president on Bret Baier's Fox News show on Friday. The decision comes weeks after Pompeo criticized his former boss and ally Donald Trump's fiscal policy in March, according to Axios.
On March 5, Pompeo appeared on Fox News Sunday and joked that "President Pompeo" would have managed the country's debt better than Trump: "$6 trillion more in debt. That's never the right direction for the country," Pompeo said on the segment, per Axios.
Pompeo, despite his stature as a former Secretary of State and longtime GOP power player, has barely registered in polling. In April, he polled at 1% in two separate Morning Consult tracking polls, at 1% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, and at 2% in a Leger/Canadian Press Poll, according to polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight. He consistently polled in sixth-place or lower in the field.
In a statement released on Friday, Pompeo said that "the time is not right for me and my family."
"To those of you this announcement disappoints, my apologies," Pompeo wrote. "To those of you this thrills, know that I'm 59 years-old. There remain plenty of opportunities for where the time might be more fitting," he added.