In a speech promoted as specializing in the Invoice of Rights, Pompeo closely laid into Democrats, arguing they “fake they care about jobs in Amer
In a speech promoted as specializing in the Invoice of Rights, Pompeo closely laid into Democrats, arguing they “fake they care about jobs in America” and ripped the Biden administration for slicing a key allow for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. He slammed his predecessor as secretary of state, John Kerry, now Biden’s local weather envoy, for suggesting in a January press briefing that fossil gas employees who misplaced their jobs can “make … photo voltaic panels.”
“You ask the nice individuals in the course of Texas, Oklahoma, or Kansas, or South Dakota, or Pennsylvania, you suppose petroleum engineers and rig palms are going to make photo voltaic panels?” he added.
He additionally conflated the Trump administration’s financial and immigration data with the administration’s international coverage.
“’America First’ is correct for America,” Pompeo stated. “The whole world advantages when America is fearless and daring and powerful.”
“[Democrats] need to defund the police whereas they barricade the Capitol,” Pompeo stated. “That is backwards. And canceling our freedom to assemble peacefully whereas censoring our communications on-line is totally antithetical to what our founders understood about America.“
The previous Kansas lawmaker is amongst a bunch of potential populist candidates jostling amid the Republican Social gathering’s reckoning within the post-Trump period — whilst the previous president stays broadly standard amongst GOP voters.
A few of these in that lane embody Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, all of whom have already spoken at CPAC. Trump is about to talk at CPAC on Sunday.
Greater than half of Republicans stated in a current POLITICO/Morning Seek the advice of Ballot that they’d vote for the previous president if the first was being held in the present day, with all different contenders effectively behind. Mike Pence led the secondary group at 12%. Pompeo drew 2%.