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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

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

I believe that we have to be able to address the issue of crime.

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

We need the president to stop cutting funding, because, if you look at the president's budget, it actually cuts funding towards violence intervention groups.

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

We know what tactics actually work and what tactics is just theatrics.

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

The homicide rate in Maryland is down over 20 percent since I have been the governor.

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

We made the largest investments in local law enforcement in our state's history, over $50 million going to Baltimore City alone.

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