In a quiet, wooded neighborhood 20 minutes from where he gave rousing public speeches to hundreds of people the night before, Gov. Wes Moore’s audience sat poolside.
Cocktails and crab cakes in hand, they listened as he walked through his personal biography and the work he’s doing back home, pausing only to take off his suit jacket and roll up his shirt sleeves under a baking South Carolina sun.
“We’re talking economic development. It’s time to get comfortable,” the Maryland Democrat said.
The backyard meet-and-greet on Saturday — hosted by former advisers to Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden at a private residence and attended by about 70 Democratic officials, operatives and business leaders — was among several events Moore headlined over two days in South Carolina that further fueled speculation about his potential national ambitions.
The governor repeated throughout the trip that he’s not a candidate for president. Anyone engaging in the speculation isn’t serious about current, pressing issues, he said.
But his latest moves indicate a 2028 presidential bid is on the table — and potentially a successful one that runs right through the Palmetto State, strategists and others involved in the state’s politics said in interviews with The Baltimore Sun.
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