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Pompeo's Legacy Of Partisanship And Wading Into Political Waters

Mike Pompeo's critics see his trip to Georgia, less than a month before key Senate runoff races, as another example of the secretary of state breaking norms by getting involved in domestic politics.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched another broadside against China on Wednesday, warning of Chinese threats to U.S. research universities.

"Americans must know how the Chinese Communist Party is poisoning the well of our higher education institutions for its own ends, and how those actions degrade our freedoms and American national security," he said in a speech in Atlanta at Georgia Tech.

Pompeo accused China's Communist Party of trying to "steal our stuff and pressure critics to keep quiet."

It was a reprise of a favorite theme for Pompeo, who has used recent speeches

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