Wes Moore

Because I don't get my authority, nor do I get my power from you.

I believe in a King of Kings, and I believe in a Lord of Lords, and they do not live on Pennsylvania Avenue.

However, it's the assault on our people

that we've got to stand up, we've got to fight for, we've got to push.

That's why when you have a president who is unchecked in this way, it's why we're pushing for things like not only people getting out and voting in November, it's why we're pushing for things like redistricting reform inside of the state of Maryland.

And we've got to fight to make sure we can get a vote in the Maryland Senate on redistricting.

This is an emergency situation, and that's exactly the kind of leadership that's going to be required.

And you think about it where for the people who are the constitutionalists, the people who talk about the framework that this country was built on, there was a reason that certain things were the First Amendments.

right, that we focused on.

Not the 8th, not the 15th, not the 20th, literally the bedrock of this new nation that they wanted to make sure was protected, one of which was things like the freedom of speech, a freedom of assembly, and the freedom of press.

And when you look at what is happening now with so many of these actions, the violations of the First Amendment, the violations of the Second Amendment,

as well when they're now getting on alex alex freddy for being a licensed firearm owner but then somehow saying but he should not have carried a firearm when actually that's a violation of the second amendment you know it's it's it's this type of of of of hypocrisy and rewriting of history that i think we've got to be able to call out

And so part of the reason that we've been pushing for in our state, and part of the objection I have with this massive expansion that we're seeing of ICE, for example,

where I say we work with federal authorities when it comes to violent criminals and when it comes to violent offenders.

And Maryland has had amongst the fastest drops of violent crime anywhere in the United States of America.

The violent crime rate in Maryland is down nearly 50% since I have been the governor.

The last time the homicide rate was this low in Baltimore City, for example, I wasn't born.

The people of my state know we do not play when it comes to public safety.

however we also do not play when it comes to protecting the constitution and the way you protect public safety is actually constitutional policing so when i'm watching ice move the way that they are moving so they are now the 13th largest by funding the 13th largest military force in the world they are now larger the larger larger law enforcement agency than the fbi

then the ATF, then the DEA, and they're putting people into our communities who are untrained, unqualified, and unaccountable, they see that is the challenge that we have because they are not there to make people safe.