While Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) spent last week in verbal combat with President Donald Trump over a sewage spill, he was also quietly losing his biggest political battle at home.
Moore’s months-long fight to redraw Maryland’s congressional maps — and oust its lone Republican member of Congress — produced zero movement among Democrats in the Maryland Senate.
Despite a public pressure campaign without modern precedent in this deep-blue state, which typically resolves intraparty fights behind closed doors, Tuesday’s unofficial deadline to act on mid-cycle redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms will come and go without fellow Democrats heeding Moore’s demands for a vote.
“The window of opportunity is closed for ’26,” said Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City), who refuses to redistrict, arguing that the state’s Democrats have already gerrymandered as much as possible and that further attempts will backfire.
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