Wes Moore: “Pathways for Work, Wages, and Wealth for All Marylanders”

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🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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“I’ve been a public servant for my entire life. I just haven’t been a politician.” Maryland’s first Black governor-elect Wes Moore shares why he chose to campaign in areas that had few Democrats, what he believes “patriotism” really means, and how his life experiences influenced him to focus on building pathways for “work, wages, and wealth” for Marylanders.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.5	BAM!
0:03.5	Governor-elect Westmore.
0:06.5	Yes, sir.
0:07.5	Are you using that yet?
0:08.5	I mean, it's only been going to be a foreshort amount of time,
0:10.5	and then it'll be Governor Westmore.
0:12.5	Has it sunk in because you ran a campaign in a place where nobody expected a Democrat
0:18.7	to be able to win the seats of Governor, and yet here you are, and you've done it.
0:23.7	What does it feel like?
0:24.7	Let's start with that, you know?
0:26.7	It feels great because you're right.
0:28.7	When we first started this race, we started a 1%.
0:31.7	You know, I say that I'm not voting was polling higher than where I was polling at.
0:35.7	Like, people were not feeling the beer first.
0:38.7	But I think what we did was we continued to show people we were going to meet people
0:41.9	where they were.
0:42.9	We were going to go to every part of the state, talk to every part of the state, and
0:46.3	that also meant even places where there weren't a lot of Democrats.
0:49.3	And people would literally say to me, they're like, you're coming to a lot of places, not
0:52.0	a lot of Democrats.
0:53.0	And I'm like, yeah, but there's a lot of Marylanders.
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