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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

So that means we already have so many gerrymandered areas that we have to be able to add a measure of fairness in the way that it's applied.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

But it's interesting. The president seems to be more concerned about my future than he is about the future of the American people.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

I think, if you look at maps across the country, less than 10 percent of congressional seats are actually competitive by nature, less than 10 percent.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

And so, yes, all options need to be on the table in the state of Maryland.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

Yes, because. And I think – and I think we have to.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

And, yes, I believe that we have to be able to address the issue of crime. I came up in and I have existed in neighborhoods and communities that have been chronically neglected.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

I want to make sure that we have fair lines and fair seats, where we don't have situations where – where politicians are choosing voters, but that voters actually have a chance to choose their elected officials.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Aug 24, 2025

I think it's very important that we allow that humanitarian aid in to the people who are starving.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

I want to make sure that we have fair lines and fair seats, where we don't have situations where – where politicians are choosing voters, but that voters actually have a chance to choose their elected officials.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

And I am very clear that there is no higher priority for me than public safety.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

But it's interesting that – but it's interesting. The president seems to be more concerned about my future than he is about the future of the American people.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Aug 24, 2025

The fact is, this is not about antisemitism, which I abhor. And the United States' position is against antisemitism, and we need to do everything we can to prevent it.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

I want to make sure that we have fair lines and fair seats, where we don't have situations where – where politicians are choosing voters, but that voters actually have a chance to choose their elected officials.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

And that's why it is so frustrating when we're hearing from the president of the United States something that is just purely performative, without actually focusing on these communities and these neighborhoods, who believe that progress is…

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

And so when we're thinking about all of these lasting factors, when we're thinking about the fact that it serves as a distraction from the fact that the president's disastrous economic policies are making everything more expensive for…

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Aug 24, 2025

The fact is, we have people dying because they are systematically being starved to death because Israel is refusing to allow in the humanitarian aid that people need to keep alive.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Aug 24, 2025

This is a shameful black mark on humanity that the world has allowed this to happen and that Israel is allowing this to happen.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

We need to be able to have fair maps. And we also need to make sure that if the president of the United States is putting his finger on the scale to try to manipulate elections...

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

I think what's happened is, this is what people hate about politics in the first place, the fact that the president of the United States... is putting his finger on the scale to try to manipulate elections.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be utilized for this.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

But we also know what tactics actually work and what tactics is just theatrics.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

And the results have been – have been incredibly encouraging, where Maryland's had amongst the fastest drops in violent crime of anywhere in the United States in the past 2.5 years.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 24, 2025

The third, it's unconstitutional. It's a direct violation of the 10th Amendment. And for a party that talks about state rights, it's amazing how they're having such a big-government approach in the way they're conducting public safety.

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