Wes Moore appears to have made his first big move into politics at exactly the right place and time
Soon-to-be Maryland governor Wes Moore. Photo: Ulysses Munoz/The Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Most national attention on Maryland politics has been focused on the Republican primary in which MAGA extremist Dan Cox defeated Governor Larry Hogan’s protégé Kelly Schulz — with some help from ads touting Cox’s conservative credential by the Democratic Governors Association. But there was a Democratic primary, too.
So the next governor of Maryland is very likely to be former best-selling author and nonprofit executive Wes Moore, who, in something of a surprise, prevailed over a large and distinguished Democratic field. The longtime front-runner, four-term state comptroller Peter Franchot, finished an anemic third. That left Moore up against former DNC chairman and secretary of Labor Tom Perez for the nomination during a delayed count of mail ballots.
This was Moore’s first race for public office, but he’s been in the public eye since the publication of his best-selling memoir The Other Wes Moore, which contrasted his life with that of another Baltimore native with the same name who wound up in prison serving a life sentence for murder.
Though Moore campaigned as an “outsider” in a state famed for its incestuous political environment, he managed to snag endorsements from U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Baltimore representative Kweisi Mfume, and a host of state legislators and local elected officials. He carried Baltimore City and County and the D.C. suburb of Prince George’s County in holding off Perez, whose base was in Montgomery County.
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