Wes Moore

attorney out of balance sheet.

So if someone commits a violent crime with a firearm, not only am I going to have you in handcuffs in 24 hours, chances are we're going to work to make your case and take it federal, right?

And we invested in community violence interruption.

And we work with the mayor and the state's attorney.

And the results have been that now Maryland has amongst the fastest drops in violent crime anywhere in the United States of America since I've been the governor.

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

We're literally talking statewide nearly a 50% drop.

in violent crime.

But it's because... Lowest in 50 years.

Lowest in 50 years.

But it's because I'm not choosing, y'all.

This is not an ideology for me.

This is not a political game to me.

It's leave no one behind.

And if you really believe in that philosophy...

So I don't view any of these people as my enemy.

You know what I mean?

I never ran for office because I wanted to have fights with the President of the United States.

That's so silly to me.

Because every time I'm spending time on that, I'm not spending time on my people.