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"I Wasn't Their Choice" - Gov. Wes Moore REVEALS How He Won WITHOUT The Party Machine

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Wes Moore says he was never the Democratic establishment’s pick, with big names backing other candidates, until his underdog campaign started winning over conservative Western Maryland and proved he wasn’t running for party bosses, just Marylanders.

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0:00.0

Anybody and everybody that brings up your name,

0:03.0

who knows you, loves you.

0:05.0

Okay, whether it's Stephen A. Smith, we're out there, like, Pat, I'm telling you, watch West, watch Governor Moore, Ray Lewis. He swear, Ray Lewis is like, I'm telling you, he's the guy, I'm telling you. So, I mean, of course, you know, when it comes on to, you know, the political side, you know, You know, the philosophy's ideology, we'll have those conversations as well. But for me, seeing guys that come up with one of the best stories out there, one fun fact that you may not know this, you know we're born three days apart. Get out of here. You're three years older day. You're October 1578. I'm October 18. No, no, no, no, stop. Stop it. And then when

0:40.1

we look at the background with what you've done, Bachelors, John Hopkins University, first black

0:45.1

governor in Maryland's history, paratrooper, White House fellow under Condoleezza Rice, captain

0:50.9

and army in 1998 to 2014, served in Afghanistan, 82nd Airborne, Southern Baptist, Church going, received bronze medal, you know, investment banker in New York.

1:02.2

I got a bunch of things I'm going through this saying, wait a minute.

1:04.9

Is this guy a Republican or a Democrat?

1:07.6

What do you, you and I found something from old school telling me, member of the college Republicans at Valley Forge Military,

1:14.5

1998, your book?

1:16.2

Well, you know, it's funny.

1:17.2

And I tell people this all the time.

1:19.2

When I ran for governor that I was not the Democrats' choice.

1:24.4

The Democrats, they were like 11 people running or whatever it was.

1:28.7

And we had statewide elected officials.

1:31.1

We had two Obama cabinet secretaries.

1:33.5

We had the former head of the Democratic Party who was running for governor.

1:37.6

And me, the guy who'd never run for all over my life.

1:41.0

Were you like underdog at the highest level?

1:42.9

True.

1:43.6

I was polling at one percent

1:45.3

in my first poll. I'm not voting was polling higher than Westmore. And so I was like the

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