Gov. Wes Moore on the power of BLACK HISTORY
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With no Kamala re-election campaign, he's certainly running for president two years from now. Should be interesting. I doubt he will be the nominee.
2032 after the DNC gets beat again in the next election. The super-liberal mindset has to go away for them to have any chance.
The nominee will be to his left. Moore is relatively moderate.
What makes you think he’s super-liberal?
Wes Moore is not but the majority of democrats online are. They won’t accept him in the current state of the DNC. They’ll need another loss before they accept the reality of the situation and see the Obama / Biden way was just a fad.
I hope you’re still posting here in January 2029 when President AOC is inaugurated.
Joking about her in particular but I think the next president will be a Democrat and there’s a good chance he/she will be to Obama/Biden/Moore’s left.
Obama could still win if he were eligible but I don’t think Moore is nearly on his level. He’s much easier to see through.
This guy would be president if he were 10 years younger:
Grand Opening, Grand Closing.
Moore low key admits his bipartisan bullshit was an illusion.
With fresh resolve after days of D.C. meetings, Gov. Wes Moore no longer believes he’ll be able to partner with President Donald Trump’s administration.
Instead — with his trademark smile gone — Moore said Monday he’s planning to use the power of his office to counter Trump and urge Maryland lawmakers to take seriously the crisis upon them.
“I come back from Washington with no illusion about what kind of partnership that this administration is trying to forge with our nation’s governors,” the Democrat said.
Moore was in the capital for several days of meetings with the nation’s governors, including one where President Donald Trump threatened a fellow Democratic governor’s federal funding if she failed to comply with an executive order.
He called the arbitrary firings and gutting of federal agencies by the Trump administration a “full crisis situation” and said he and lawmakers must “move appropriately.”
“If this first month is any indication of where things are going, we as lawmakers had better take this moment seriously,” he said.
He said his administration will use “every tool available” to protect Marylanders, including executive orders, executive actions and backing Attorney General Anthony Brown’s federal litigation.
“If things come across our bow that are either illegal or unconstitutional, that there will be a legal response from the state of Maryland,” he said.
Moore has until now, approached state-federal relations with diplomacy and kept his remarks measured.
“I am not the leader of the resistance, I’m the governor of Maryland,” Moore said in January, shortly before Trump took office for the second time.
Monday he again asserted that he was willing to work with anyone focused on the best interests of Marylanders. But Trump missed an opportunity to build rapport with state leaders, Moore said.
“I think for all of us, we were not just deeply underwhelmed, but I think we were troubled,” he said.
Moore said he did not have any direct conversations with Trump.
The meeting of the National Governors Association included a luncheon at the White House where Trump gave an hourlong speech. It was at that gathering that Trump threatened Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ access to federal funds unless she complied with his executive order to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports.
Most alarming to Moore, he said, was that he didn’t hear how the president plans to help Americans, make prescription drugs more affordable, lower the costs of goods or cut taxes for lower-class families.
“I heard grievances, personal grievances,” he said.
Moore’s sharp pivot comes as two of his budget-balancing proposals appear uncertain.
Last week a joint session of the General Assembly heard pleas from superintendents, students and educators not to adopt changes Moore is proposing to state education reforms, known as the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future. The changes would pause portions of the plan that would bolster low-income schools in order to save hundreds of millions in future budgets. Lawmakers have doubled down, saying they plan to keep funding whole.
Also in play is the governor’s aggressive tax reforms proposal, which some lawmakers have said is likely to come out of the legislative session differently than it went in.
“It’s time for all of us as lawmakers to be able to understand the crisis that is at hand, and we are not going to kick the can down the road, and we are not going to confuse these for normal times,” Moore said.
The governor said he’s planning to meet with the General Assembly to discuss his three guiding principles moving forward and that he’ll use these as a “lens” to review legislation: making life more affordable for middle-class families, making it easier for businesses to compete in the state and “aggressively” defending the rights and freedoms of Marylanders.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore may get an intra-party challenge when he runs for reelection in 2026, with retired banker Ed Hale Sr. close to announcing a campaign.
Hale said in a brief interview Thursday that he’s “pretty sure” he will run and is in the midst of going through the necessary paperwork.
“I just think that we could do better,” said Hale, 78, who describes himself as a lifelong Democrat.
Any challenge to Moore would be a formidable task. Even though he had some losses in the recent General Assembly session and his approval ratings have taken a slight dip, he remains popular and has more than $4 million in the bank already for his reelection. Most recent polling has shown a majority of those surveyed approve of Moore’s performance.
Moore’s campaign team declined to comment Thursday.
Hale said he thinks Moore is distracted by his national ambitions and isn’t doing a good enough job creating jobs and boosting the economy.
“I think the general consensus is that he’s going to run for president and that makes him, I guess, someone that is not fully invested in Maryland,” Hale said. “I’m going to be that person.”
Hale, who grew up in eastern Baltimore County and now lives in Easton, would bring a varied and slightly checkered history to politics.
He’s best known in Baltimore as the owner of the Baltimore Blast indoor soccer team and the former CEO of First Mariner Bank, from which he retired in 2011. First Mariner, sunk by bad mortgages during the Great Recession, went bankrupt and was eventually acquired by Howard Bank. (Howard Bank merged with First National Bank in 2022.)
Hale also had shipping and trucking companies and worked in real estate development, building an office tower in Canton.
In a 2014 biography by author Kevin Cowherd, Hale said he assisted the CIA, who used his businesses as cover for operatives.
Hale has found himself in trouble more than once.
In 2011, he was charged with bringing a loaded gun in a carry-on bag to BWI Marshall Airport. He was granted probation before judgment and ordered to pay a fine, according to court records.
And in 2020, the Blast soccer team sold an anti-China T-shirt that Hale said he thought was “funny” but others described as racist. The front carried the word “strong” and an American flag, with the back of the shirt showing an outline of the country of China with a slash symbol over it.
His reasoning is bullshit and to override this veto will take another year.
Dammit Man
His real reason: “I don’t want to hear about that shit during my presidential campaign!”
He'll never win again. Minus whale register as a republican.
Fools will get upset about reparations but you hear nothing about trade policy. Many of you try to undermine efforts to onshore manufacturing, pedaling garbage scholarships.
Tariq Nasheed is a perfect example. I would veto this nonsense in a second.
Tariq Nasheed is a perfect example. I would veto this nonsense in a second.
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