Wes Moore

I'm not voting was polling higher than Wes Moore.

And so I was like the underdog of the underdog when I first started running.

But I was like, but I'm not running to be, you know, to lead the Democratic Party.

I'm not running because I take any party's talking points and just swallow them.

I don't do that.

And that's not my family's background.

That's not my background.

I was like, does it make sense or not?

And so when I ran, I wasn't the Democratic Party's choice, but it turned out that I was a choice of the people of the state of Maryland, which is all that ever mattered to me.

And that's exactly how I've tried to govern now, where it's like, I don't take my talking points from party bosses.

I don't do that.

It's like, does it make sense for my people or not?

No, that didn't happen until the general election.

I never got it.

I wasn't getting big endorsements in the primary.

So the primary, you did it all by yourself?

No, the primary, we had a bunch of the established Democrats were already endorsing other people because they'd worked with them, and they're like, they didn't know me.

You know what was interesting?

Actually, it's interesting you said that.

There was something called the Western Maryland Summit.