'The Lord will get me to the right place': Pompeo opens door to future Kansas run
BY LINDSAY WISE AND BRYAN LOWRY
MARCH 17, 2019 06:30 AM
WASHINGTON - When Mike Pompeo thinks about what’s next, he thinks about Kansas.
He’s ruled out a U.S. Senate run in 2020. But on the eve of Pompeo’s first official visit to Kansas since his meteoric rise from congressman to secretary of state, the Wichita Republican propped open the door to a political future in his home state.
“I try to just avoid ruling things out when there’s others who are in control,” Pompeo said. “The Lord will get me to the right place.”
Republicans in the state think that means one of two things — a bid for Senate or the governor’s mansion in 2022. That is, if Pompeo doesn’t decide to run for president in 2024 instead.
He’d be well placed for a run in Kansas. One internal Republican poll from January showed Pompeo beating any potential GOP rival statewide by double digits. And he’s sitting on nearly $1 million in his dormant federal campaign committee.
“It’s a terrible quandary because he may well be the strongest and most capable cabinet memb
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The right place would be "HELL"! 
Which is pretty much what this steaming mound did in his old gig as KS-04 representative.
