Steven Donziger said about Wes Moore, in Donziger On Justice on October 18, 2026.
Donziger was criticizing Democratic officials for not describing the war in Gaza as genocide.
Wes Moore
Things People Say About Wes Moore
Wes Moore is the Democratic governor of Maryland, with Aruna Miller as lieutenant governor. He was the Democratic nominee for a second term in 2026, running against Republican Dan Cox.
What People Say About Them
Eliana Johnson said about Wes Moore, in The Washington Free Beacon on October 8, 2026.
Eliana Johnson, editor-in-chief of the conservative Washington Free Beacon, in its Morning Beacon newsletter on Oct. 8, 2026, the day after Moore's only debate with Republican Dan Cox. She is questioning whether Moore will serve a full second term.
Jay Inslee said about Wes Moore, in The Warning with Steve Schmidt on August 6, 2026.
Former Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on The Warning with Steve Schmidt, in August 2026, discussing the potential Democratic field for the 2028 presidential nomination.
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
Around 22:44 into the episode
Speaker 1
Uh.
Speaker 2
I'd like to see a really a really big field anybody else out there that that you look at and say, I'd like to see them as a candidate, see what they got.
Speaker 3
Well. I would encourage anybody who has a and credibility to run this year because it's an open field to run, right, So if you're an open field runner. There's a lot to run on, and I think that that you have candidates that who may be you know, in the two or three percent polling right now, It could end up being very credible candidates. You know that happened with Pete Budachez when I ran for president twenty twenty, who caught fire and became a top tier candidate. You got Senator Kelly, you know, who is an incredible talent and has a story to tell. It's incredibly unique of his personal story. You have Wes Moore, who's just a really young talent. Andy Basher has such a unique story to tell from his both biography and how he's done in his state. So I would say there's multiple other candidates, and I think it is an entirely open field. I will say this, and I know that this sounds like, you know, just one political hack talking about his friends. I there is a lot of talent in this field. You know, I was governor for twelve years.…
Speaker 2
When when you look out of the field and you see some of these can that it's asoff in AOC who have a lot of attention I was. I was quite outspoken about Biden's broken promise. I predicted the catastrophe, what it would do to his legacy.
Speaker 3
Uh.
Speaker 2
I think it's a I think it's a tragedy for him, for the for the country. Uh. But eighty two was too old. Eighty six is absurd, Uh for for an age for the president of the United States. Let me let me ask you this. It's forty two young.
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.
Astead Herndon said about Wes Moore, in America, Actually with Astead Herndon on August 1, 2026.
Astead Herndon on America, Actually, responding to Don Lemon's pick of Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in a fantasy draft of 2028 Democratic contenders.
America, Actually with Astead Herndon
Around 30:32 into the episode
Kara Swisher
He's like, not grinder with that thing here.
Don Lemon
No, no, no, not like that. I love him like a brother. And his wife, I mean, his wife's a friend. And I just think that he is brilliant. He has a good heart. He's handsome. And people really like him. He is a charismatic personality.
Speaker 1
I mean, he certainly has the fresh face quality and I think is introducing himself on the national stage where there's a desire to hear from some new people. So I could definitely see him making something work. I think I'm going to go with the senator from Georgia, John Osoff. Very good. Because I think that it is an electability thing. And I think about what you're saying about Jewish candidates. And I honestly think there is some way that it can insulate some folks from some criticism too. And that if you kind of play, if you speak to your kind of anti-Zionist, but also not overtly left-wing…
Don Lemon
We're on the same page because that was going to be one of my picks again. And the reason I was going to pick him is because the ladies love him. Ladies vote. Black women love him. They call him Senator Mayboo. And we know that the road to the White House in the Democratic Party runs through black…
Kara Swisher
right. It's hard here because I'm going to go. I'm between two people that I like a lot. And I've spent a lot of time with. One is Gina Ramundo, who I think in any other world would be very qualified.
Speaker 1
Is your concern is gender. Gender.
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Don Lemon said about Wes Moore, in America, Actually with Astead Herndon on August 1, 2026.
Don Lemon on America, Actually with Astead Herndon, explaining why he picked Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for his team in a fantasy draft of 2028 Democratic contenders. He says he is a friend of Moore and his wife.
America, Actually with Astead Herndon
Around 30:24 into the episode
Speaker 1
I've seen him. I've seen him and I've seen it.
Kara Swisher
He's like, not grinder with that thing here.
Don Lemon
No, no, no, not like that. I love him like a brother. And his wife, I mean, his wife's a friend. And I just think that he is brilliant. He has a good heart. He's handsome. And people really like him. He is a charismatic personality.
Speaker 1
I mean, he certainly has the fresh face quality and I think is introducing himself on the national stage where there's a desire to hear from some new people. So I could definitely see him making something work. I think I'm going to go with the senator from Georgia, John Osoff. Very good. Because I…
Don Lemon
We're on the same page because that was going to be one of my picks again. And the reason I was going to pick him is because the ladies love him. Ladies vote. Black women love him. They call him Senator Mayboo. And we know that the road to the White House in the Democratic Party runs through black…
Kara Swisher
right. It's hard here because I'm going to go. I'm between two people that I like a lot. And I've spent a lot of time with. One is Gina Ramundo, who I think in any other world would be very qualified.
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.
Where to Find Them
Wes Moore writes Wes Moore , writes The Briefing with Jen Psaki , writes The Beat with Ari Melber , writes https://jimacosta.substack.com , writes The Siren , writes The Jim Acosta Show , writes Are you f'ng kidding me? , writes DIANE REHM's Substack and writes The Jim Acosta Show . They have also been a guest on Squawk Pod (5 times) , The Parnas Perspective (2 times) , Wall Street Week , Conversate with Killer Mike , Pivot Podcast , UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham , The David Pakman Show , Bloomberg Surveillance , Bloomberg This Weekend , On with Kara Swisher , WYPR News Roundup , Main Justice , Marketplace All-in-One , Washington Today , Bulwark Takes , Ceasefire , NPR's Newsmakers and After the Fact .
Recently: “Trump Admits It's Over as Voter Turnout Surges!” on The Parnas Perspective (October 2026); “The wrong side of history in more ways than one” on The David Pakman Show (October 2026); “Trump Threatens to Arrest Obama as Election Interference Escalates!” on The Parnas Perspective (October 2026); “Trump’s AI Push Could Boost His Own Investments (w/ Gov. Wes Moore)” on Bulwark Takes (September 2026); “Maryland Gov. Wes Moore & the AI Buildout 9/15/26” on Squawk Pod (September 2026); “September 11, 25 years later. What was learned?” on WYPR News Roundup (September 2026).
What They Said
Moore, quoted by the Associated Press on Oct. 2, 2026 after an innovation conference in Baltimore, on why he is forming a bipartisan governors' group on AI. He said the federal government, including the White House and Congress, has a leadership role it has not filled.
Moore on Marketplace Tech, answering whether his entrepreneurial background helps in office. He said entrepreneurs value speed and flexibility, and contrasted that with the Trump administration's approach.
Marketplace All-in-One
Around 18:32 into the episode
Speaker 3
…take care of an aging parent. And so I feel like we had to make adjustments to be able to respond to what people were telling us. And I do think kind of a non-political background, but an entrepreneur's background of understanding speed and flexibility has actually been helpful in this moment. The
Stephanie Hughes
idea is to move fast and not break too many things.
Speaker 3
…to wait and the ones who are being left behind, that almost becomes a generational phenomenon, that we're just being told to wait continually. We're being left behind continually. I think the challenge we've seen from some of the things, particularly we've seen from the federal government, from this, from the Trump Bance administration, is they've just decided to break everything. And I think what the president was telling us when he was running for president wasn't that he alone could fix it. What he was telling us was that he alone could break it. And I think that there are consequences of that because when you are just deciding to break everything, there is a lot of collateral damage. And unfortunately, a lot of the collateral damage have been working families, have been families like, you know, like our federal workers who live in the state of Maryland. And frankly, a lot of the collateral damage have been people who never felt like the system worked for them in the first place and it hadn't. And now they're just getting more verification of that.
Stephanie Hughes
That's Maryland's Governor Westmore. Daniel Shin produced this episode. I'm Stephanie Hughes, and that's Marketplace Tech. This is APM. The economy never stops shifting. Markets move, global trade gets disrupted, and policies shift. And all these factors have a tremendous influence on the ways we…
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.
Moore on Marketplace Tech, asked about data centers after he signed a 2024 law that made it easier to build backup generators. He listed conditions for state support, including paying for their own energy and upgrades, hiring local workers and following environmental rules.
Marketplace All-in-One
Around 16:49 into the episode
Speaker 3
…data centers. And so again, I believe in critical infrastructure, but I also believe in guardrails. And that's why I think these have been some of the most aggressive guardrails that have been laid out about how we are thinking about this type of, you know, these types of industries in our state.
Stephanie Hughes
…law making it easier for data centers in Maryland to construct backup generators. You reportedly said of the bill signing that the law was going to supercharge the data center industry in the state. How are you feeling about data centers now and what would you like their presence here to be?
Speaker 3
I want them to make sure that they have to follow our rules, that we're not following theirs. Data centers don't get to write the rules. Data center companies don't get to dictate what this looks like. And so the guidelines that I've put around it by basically saying again that they have to be able to pay for their own energy and bring their own energy, that they pay for all their own upgrades, that they work with local jurisdictions and they hire local workers, that they have to honor environmental rules that we have within our state. That I am not moving on any of those things. I believe…
Stephanie Hughes
Before I let you go, two last big picture questions. So you have often pointed out that you don't have a background in politics, but I don't think everybody knows that you have a background as an entrepreneur. You ran a startup that was focused on education. How does having that entrepreneurial…
Speaker 3
It helps because I think as entrepreneurs, there's two things that we understand well. It's speed and flexibility. You know, entrepreneurs don't have the luxury of moving slow. And I have found that for a lot of people who have been kind of creatures of politics, there is this slow-moving nature…
Stephanie Hughes
idea is to move fast and not break too many things.
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.
Moore on Marketplace Tech, asked what Maryland workers outside the industries covered by his $4 million AI workforce initiative can expect.
Marketplace All-in-One
Around 07:20 into the episode
Wes Moore
…state of Maryland. We see how the sphere is coming to the state of Maryland. It's going to support over 8,000 jobs once complete. So these are industries that we're uniquely prepared to win at. And so I also then just want to make sure that our workers are prepared to be able to benefit from that.
Stephanie Hughes
For the Maryland workers outside those industries, what can people expect to help them become ready for an AI-filled future?
Wes Moore
Well, one, I think we need to be honest with people about how this technology is continuing to move and what we are continuing to see. The truth is, is that you are going to see even a lot of white-collar industry jobs that are going to be challenged. If you look at the United States economy right now, there are certain industries that are becoming essentially low-fire but low-hire industries. We say it
Stephanie Hughes
all the time on our air.
Wes Moore
That's right, right? So, I mean, but that's a real phenomenon. So I think we have to be both honest about what that's looking like, creative about what are the new industries that we think this is going to help to help to support, but then also saying, how can we use this technology to be able to…
Stephanie Hughes
When you think about the scale of the overall artificial intelligence industry, $4 million is tiny. What do you plan to do after this money is gone?
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.
Moore on Marketplace Tech, explaining why Maryland became the first state to ban dynamic pricing in grocery stores. He had proposed the law earlier in 2026.
Marketplace All-in-One
Around 02:09 into the episode
Speaker 3
It's gorgeous out there, even though I've been outside all day today.
Stephanie Hughes
…shopper a different price. That price can depend on the weather as well as the time of day and what the store knows about each shopper. This spring, Maryland became the first state to ban this practice in grocery stores. The law was proposed by Governor Moore, and I asked him why he wanted it.
Wes Moore
Because we were seeing how, you know, average Marylanders were just getting hosed by these big corporations. And because what they're using is they're using your data against you. When I walk into a grocery store, they know what time you're coming in. They know what you were buying when you were there. And for many Marylanders, they go to the grocery store at the same time every single week because that's the time that they have to shop for their families. And so what could then happen is they could use the data to where you would pay a different price than the person in front of you because they knew they could increase the price on you and they knew you'd pay for it. And so what we did was we said, that practice is illegal. That cannot happen. That I cannot pay a different price than the person in front of me and the person behind me cannot pay a different price. And so by making it standard, saying like, if this is the price, that is the price. It was, you know, not only did we become the first state in the country that was able to do that. I think we were able to…
Stephanie Hughes
And this is the quick price changes, either through electronic labels or when people are ordering online, they change the price for depending on who you are.
Wes Moore
Depending on who you are, depending on what your buying habits are, because they know that if they increase it by 10%, you're probably just going to pay it. You're probably not going to ask for much. And so that increase on that margin for that supermarket or for that corporation, we just believe…
Stephanie Hughes
Why target grocery stores specifically?
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.