Former Secretary of State MikePompeo said that in politics, we criticize candidates all the time because they didn’t vote. 'This is different from that,' Pompeo said bluntly.
GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania — Hours ahead of former President Donald Trump’s rally to support Mehmet Oz’s bid for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a press conference with reporters raising security concerns about Oz's ties to Turkey.
Trump will hold a rally for Oz in Westmoreland County on Friday at the county fairgrounds; it marks the former president's first visit to the state since leaving office in January 2021. His endorsement lifted Oz a month ago out of the cellar; the Oz team is confident that Trump’s hand in this race will have the same effect it had in Ohio for Republican primary winner J.D. Vance, who is also scheduled to attend the event.
Pompeo said that in politics, we criticize candidates all the time because they didn’t vote. “This is different from that,” he said bluntly. “Not only did he not engage in the American [process], but he engaged in the Turkish political process. That raises in my mind a lot of judgments about his priority."
Pompeo said he wanted to be clear that his concerns are not whether Oz has done something unlawful. “It is about who is best suited to be the next United States senator from Pennsylvania that’s been represented by a patriotic American conservative for an awfully long time.”
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