President Donald Trump has confirmed that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed leaving office to run for the Senate from Kansas, Time magazine reported.
In the same context, the magazine quoted a source in the Republican Party as saying that Pompeo is looking for a safe exit from the Trump administration before the Senate elections.
Pompeo revealed to three prominent Republicans in recent weeks his intention to resign from the Trump administration to run for the Senate.
Pompeo was aiming to stay in the State Department until early spring next year, but recent developments, including achieving Trump's isolation, are politically detrimental to him and affect his relationship with the president, she said.
But State Department spokeswoman Morgan Otargos said the minister told her the news was "totally untrue."
According to the three Republicans, Pompeo is reshuffling his agenda, and the timing of his resignation is now linked to his ability to get the least damage out of the Trump administration.
But in an interview on Friday morning on Fox and Friends, Trump appeared to give Pompeo a green light to run in the Senate race. "Mike will easily win in Kansas, a big state. It's Trump," he said.
"He (Pompeo) loves what he does, he came to me and said, look, I prefer to stay where I am, but he loves Kansas, he loves the people of Kansas. .