⁍ U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday he expected to have a conversation about what role he may play if President Donald Trump wins a second term.

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⁍ It was unclear from Pompeo’s comment, made during a virtual think tank appearance, whether he was suggesting a willingness to continue as U.S. secretary of state or in some other role.

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⁍ He became secretary of state in April 2018 after serving as Trump’s CIA director.

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– “There is still a lot of work to do and I would love to find a way to be a part of that.” So said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday when asked about his future if President Trump wins a second term. Reuters notes that Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, is suspected of harboring presidential ambitions, possibly as early as the 2024 election. “I love Kansas. My wife and I miss it dearly,” he said during a virtual think tank appearance. “That was the attractive piece of considering the race but we never, frankly, considered running very actively.” Pompeo, 56, has a reputation as a staunch loyalist who would not challenge the president and told him what he wanted to hear, a discipline perhaps honed at the US Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated first in his class. Pompeo aligned himself closely to Trump by pursuing hawkish policies on Iran and Venezuela and overseeing harsher sanctions to try to force them to yield to US demands, outcomes that have yet to materialize. Several media reports said Pompeo was weighing a run for a US Senate seat from Kansas, his adoptive home. On Tuesday, he admitted to having given it a thought. “I love Kansas. My wife and I miss it dearly. That was the attractive piece of considering the race but we never, frankly, considered running very actively.”