Gov. Wes Moore Announces Re-Election Campaign: “Are We Good? Let’s Get Back To Work”
Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore officially announced that he is running for a second term in 2026:
GOV. WES MOORE: When I launched my campaign for governor four years ago, I had never run for political office before. I’m an Army combat veteran and I ran one of the largest poverty-fighting organizations in America. So I traveled the state, and I listened to your stories and I shared mine and we all saw the same thing that these career politicians had been telling us that everything was great. When we knew that it wasn’t, so we came into office with bold ideas and a new sense of urgency. We inherited a structural budget deficit and turned it into a surplus. Our unemployment rate was one of the nation’s highest, and now it is one of the nation’s lowest. We cut taxes for veterans and cut taxes for the middle class. We declared that violent crime can’t and won’t be tolerated in our state, and now homicides in Baltimore are the lowest they have been in 50 years. And when crisis hit, and the Key Bridge collapsed, we rallied and they said it would take 11 months to reopen the port of Baltimore and we got it done in 11 weeks. But while we stand up for middle-class Marylanders, the president of the United States is bending over backwards for billionaires and big corporations, firing federal workers, gutting Medicaid, raising prices on everything from electricity to groceries, and the gains of Washington are exhausting and worse, they’re hurting people. So listen, I’m not from that world and y’all know I’m a person of action, and we are moving forward fast across the state and across party lines to prove to a dysfunctional Washington that there is a better way forward to make our public schools the best in America, to end childhood poverty once and for all, and to make sure that more Marylanders can afford to live here, to buy a home here and create wealth for their families and live that secure middle class life, and that’s why I’m asking you to reelect me as governor. But first, we need your help, so chip in, follow us, share this video, but most importantly, join us and let’s keep building a state where we leave no one behind. Are we good? Good. Let’s get back to work.
