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Read more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.Governor Wes Moore doesn’t care about saving the Democratic Party; if anything, he thinks it has stood in his way. When we met up in May, he quoted Jay-Z: “Industry shady, it need to be taken over.” The 2001 track is about Jay-Z’s rise to fame, and the ways the recording industry tried to exploit and co-opt him because he was “raisin’ the status quo up.” Moore was talking about a failed political system, and a Democratic Party that, he told me, “tried as hard as they could to get me not to run.” Jay-Z describes himself as a “renegade,” and Moore would like to be seen in a similar light—as the outsider who got himself to the top.Moore is the first Black governor of Maryland and the only Black governor serving in America today.
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Read more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.Governor Wes Moore doesn’t care about saving the Democratic Party; if anything, he thinks it has stood in his way. When we met up in May, he quoted Jay-Z: “Industry shady, it need to be taken over.” The 2001 track is about Jay-Z’s rise to fame, and the ways the recording industry tried to exploit and co-opt him because he was “raisin’ the status quo up.” Moore was talking about a failed political system, and a Democratic Party that, he told me, “tried as hard as they could to get me not to run.” Jay-Z describes himself as a “renegade,” and Moore would like to be seen in a similar light—as the outsider who got himself to the top.Moore is the first Black governor of Maryland and the only Black governor serving in America today. At 47, he’s a relative newcomer to politics—he was the head of Robin Hood, a poverty-fighting foundation, until 2021—but he’s already being discussed as a possible presidential candidate in 2028. He’s just the kind of Bronze Star–winning, God-praising, son-of-an-immigrant Rhodes Scholar whom many Democratic voters would see as a dream candidate (although he denied to me that he was considering running).
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- Read more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.Governor Wes Moore doesn’t care about saving the Democratic Party; if anything, he thinks it has stood in his way. When we met up in May, he quoted Jay-Z: “Industry shady, it need to be taken over.” The 2001 track is about Jay-Z’s rise to fame, and the ways the recording industry tried to exploit and co-opt him because he was “raisin’ the status quo up.” Moore was talking about a failed political system, and a Democratic Party that, he told me, “tried as hard as they could to get me not to run.” Jay-Z describes himself as a “renegade,” and Moore would like to be seen in a similar light—as the outsider who got himself to the top.Moore is the first Black governor of Maryland and the only Black governor serving in America today.
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