Wes Moore Expected to Win Historic Maryland Governor’s Race: Wes Moore, his wife Dawn, and their children react in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 8, 2022, when it was announced that Moore had won the campaign for governor of Maryland. Moore is a member of the Democratic Party.
Wes Moore is Favored to Become the First African-American Governor of Maryland
Tuesday’s Associated Press projected that Democratic author and former nonprofit leader Wes Moore defeated far-right Republican Dan Cox to become Maryland’s first Black governor. Moore, 44, won the governorship after eight years of Republican administration by promising to “leave no one behind” in a diversifying state where people of color are the majority.
Nobody stays. Moore campaigned for that Worth, Valueless. January affects this state’s mission.” After Deval Patrick and L. Douglas Wilder, Jamaican immigrant Moore becomes the third Black American governor. Moore enchanted Maryland voters. After Cox became the GOP nominee, Democrats enjoyed a 2-to-1 voting registration edge with a moderate electorate. Moore was 30-points ahead six weeks before Election Day.
Cox tacked right, failing to construct the cross-party coalition that catapulted popular and term-limited Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. Hogan ejected Cox. Cox used conservative concerns over coronavirus laws, emphasized parental rights in schools, and maintained ties to former President Trump, who is immensely unpopular in Maryland.
Former state delegate Aruna Miller, Moore’s running mate, is the state’s first immigrant and minority lieutenant governor. Del. Brooke Lierman (D-Baltimore City) became the first female comptroller and U.S. Rep. Anthony G. Brown (D-Md) the first Black attorney general.
Moore’s. “He felt trustworthy,” said Hyattsville voter Alfonso Sasieta, 30. Moore’s future thrills him. His Black life will shape policy. Sarah Holley, 75, voted for Moore in West Baltimore with a blue “WES” pin on her hat.
Holley termed its progress. A Black woman held his hands and prayed before Moore boarded a blue and yellow campaign bus at another Baltimore polling station. “The weight of making history does sit on us, and it’s humbling,” Moore said during the campaign. No assignment.”
Moore created a free statewide partnership to reduce crime, increase economic opportunity, and end child poverty. The state’s multibillion-dollar excess offered a “once-in-a-generation” chance to reform governance. Moore championed patriotism and estate tax reduction, Republican strongholds.
We boldly represent Maryland’s future. “He’s intelligent in business; he’s a veteran who has taken great risks on behalf of our country in combat, and he’s also a shade darker than anybody who’s ever come before,” said 2018 unsuccessful governor candidate Ben Jealous.
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In his best-selling book “The Other Wes Moore,” he describes how his father died in front of him at age 3 from a misdiagnosed illness, starting his nearly two-year quest. Military school was his mother’s get away from the Bronx. Dawn, a veteran Maryland legislator, and their children, Mia, 11, and James, 9, live in Baltimore.
A short while ago, I spoke to Wes Moore and congratulated him on being elected as Maryland’s next governor. There is no higher calling than public service, and no greater honor than to serve the people of this great state.
— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) November 9, 2022
Moore campaigned for decades. “Every time I go back to New York,” Moore told the Palm Beach Post in 1998. “I see my old neighborhood decaying and wonder, ‘What can I do?’ Politics fixes.” Frederick Cox defeated Hogan’s moderate-Republican successor.
Former President Trump complimented Cox, who called the 2020 election “stolen.” Hogan labeled him a “whack job” unworthy of support. Hogan was not impeached by Cox for epidemic limitations. “Wes is well qualified… but Cox is a tremendous blessing for Wes,” said retired Howard University political science department chairman Alvin Thornton.
Cox raised a tenth of Moore’s $16 million despite a Trump event in Mar-a-Lago last month. Cox remained conservative in a state where GOP leaders won independents and moderates. He advocated “freedom” from vaccination mandates, gender identity education, and state revenue-generating income taxes.
Longtime Anne Arundel County civil rights pioneer Carl Snowden stated Moore “was rewarded the tremendous fortune of having Dan Cox as his opponent.” African Americans admired Hogan, especially. Black voters like 42-year-old plumber Charles Williams found Hogan “very cool” outside Wheaton High School. Williams chose Moore over Cox. “Republican, Democrat, it’s who gets the job done,” Williams remarked.
Cox claims a court-ordered alteration to mail-in ballot opening times invalidates the election results. Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer won the 1986 governorship with 82% of the vote, a Maryland record. Cox’s Annapolis election night party was tiny. Moore interned with Baltimore’s first Black mayor, Kurt Schmoke. Schmoke nominated Moore as a Rhodes Scholar, and after he graduated from Oxford, he proposed a commercial job to boost his legislative credentials.
“It was evident to me that it was vital for him to understand not just the public sector but the private sector and he would obtain stronger support from the business community if he knew the private sector,” Schmoke said in a recent interview.
Schmoke asked law professor and legendary Maryland political organizer Larry Gibson to support Moore’s first political campaign. Gibson launched Schmoke and Prince George’s County’s first Black mayor, Wayne K. Curry. Senior adviser Gibson attended primary events and placed campaign signs across the state earlier this year.
Gibson spent his 80th birthday door-knocking for Moore. Black political icon Patrick advised Moore to appeal to everyone, not just Democrats. Wes rocks. Patrick counseled Moore to be a steward. Moore said they talk politics, not history. “He’s not telling me not to appreciate the fact that we’re doing something that hasn’t been done before,” Moore said in a mid-October interview. That will be forgotten. He was a governor.
Moore’s win compounded Maryland’s racial history. Maryland never left the union, but it was a slave state with Confederate backing, and centuries after the Civil War, it revered figures like the Dred Scott court that judged Black people unsuitable for citizenship. The State Capitol had one monument five years ago. Richard W. Thomas Jr., 80, wore an orange jumper with an “I voted” badge on Tuesday.
Black Thomas remembered “we couldn’t vote” and would vote for Moore later. First. He followed the gubernatorial race this year. Wes Moore was his.
Moore campaigned in Prince George’s County, D.C. Maryland was Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Thurgood Marshall’s.
Our state capitol was built by slaves. The state house is near the Annapolis slave harbor. “I know this state’s history,” he added. We’ll accomplish what our ancestors couldn’t. Hoped. Dreamed. Fought. A rare opportunity.”
