WASHINGTON _ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday that he will not run for an open Senate seat in Kansas this year as heightened tensions with Iran risk spilling into war.
His decision, reported by The New York Times, ends widespread Republican hopes that he would enter the race in his home state, where the party's failed 2018 nominee for governor, Kris Kobach, currently leads the GOP field.
Pompeo met with McConnell for roughly a half-hour in a secure room on Capitol Hill Monday.
