I'm Jonathan Capehart and welcome to Capehart.

On November 8th, the people of Maryland made history.

The Democratic candidate for governor roared to victory,

with more than 64% of the vote, twice that of his Republican opponent.

Thus making my guest today the first African American elected governor of Maryland,

only the third in U.S. history.

His name, Governor-elect Wes Moore.

In this conversation first recorded for Washington Post Live on November 30th,

Moore and I talked about a lot of things, his victory in how that weighs on him, the state

of national politics, his plan for the first 100 days,

and whether the Washington commanders should keep playing football in Maryland.

I want the commanders to stay. I want the commanders to be here in Maryland.

But what we're not going to do is to allow taxpayer dollars to essentially

continue to underwrite the enterprise. But taxpayers are not getting the return on that investment

besides being able to watch a game on Sundays. That's not going to be enough.

So how'd you do it? How'd you win? Why did you win?

I think we won because we went everywhere. And it was interesting because there are people who would tell us,

you know, well, you need to go to this part of the state or to go to that part of the state, you need X percentage of votes out of Baltimore City.

You know, my answer was always simple when they said, who do you need to win?

I said, everyone.

And that's exactly how we, not just how we planned on winning.

That's how we won.

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