Wes Moore

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.

I have been on his mind a lot.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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…

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…

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I refuse to be a governor who just offers thoughts and prayers to this situation.

It's deeply disrespectful to the members of the National Guard.

It's unconstitutional. It's a direct violation of the 10th Amendment.

It is not sustainable. You cannot continue this type of pace of operations, particularly when it's costing over a million dollars a day in order to do this.

It’s deeply disrespectful to the members of the National Guard.