Gov. Wes Moore Says Democrats Will Win Election On Hope, Not Trump Fear

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Gov. Wes Moore says Democrats will hold the White House by selling voters on VP Kamala Harris' vision for the future -- and he explained why prosecuting Donald Trump on the campaign trail won't be enough.

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00:00I have never seen fortunes change in two days like I've seen this week.

00:10From the time that Joe Biden said he wasn't going to run to now, only two days.

00:17This party has not only solidified, but it's energized, raised a ton of money, and there

00:25is unity where I hadn't seen it for years.

00:29I want to just get your reaction to it, because it's just amazing to me.

00:33It's really exciting, and I think it goes back to two different reasons.

00:36The first is Joe Biden.

00:38I think there's a deep level of respect and admiration that the party has for Joe Biden.

00:43I think what he did was remarkably selfless, and something that, frankly, you have not

00:48seen that many times in American history.

00:50The second is, it's the vice president.

00:52It's Kamala Harris.

00:54It's the public servant that she is.

00:56It's the fact that everything that we've been able to get done as governors and as

01:00leaders around the country, it's because we've been doing it in partnership with the Biden-Harris

01:03administration.

01:05She has been a partner the entire way through.

01:07I think that people's confidence in her has also mattered in all this as well.

01:11I feel like for the past three weeks, unfortunately, we have spent more time focusing on walking

01:16gates and speech patterns than we are that the danger that a potential Donald Trump administration

01:23and a Trump-Vance administration presents to the future of this country.

01:27And so I feel like now we have the opportunity to actually prosecute the case, prosecute

01:32the past, which is Donald Trump's past behavior, and the fact that we've never seen a situation

01:38like this, where you have someone who is a twice-impeached, multiple-time convicted and

01:43indicted person running for president of the United States, someone who, frankly, could

01:48not join the military, but is now trying to be the commander in chief.

01:52If she's just going to prosecute something that's already been prosecuted, doesn't it

01:58kind of fall on deaf ears and don't you need to take some kind of different approach?

02:03Because it just doesn't seem to matter.

02:06You're right.

02:07That's not going to be enough.

02:10Voters are not going to vote on the ability to prosecute a case.

02:14They're going to vote on the ability to have a vision for the hope and future for them

02:17and their families.

02:18And, you know, we do have a situation where, you know, with our vice president, we have

02:23someone who has devoted her time and her life to being able to fight for our future and

02:28our freedoms.

02:29And, frankly, she's running against someone in the former president who is focusing his

02:34time, focusing on his future and his freedoms.

02:39That's the fundamental question that we have that the American people are going to have

02:42to answer for.

02:44But you're not.

02:45But you're right.

02:46You're not going to win an election by making people scared of something.

02:49You're going to win an election by making people hopeful of something.

02:53And we now have 105 days to be able to make the case to the American people all over this

02:59country in red areas, in blue areas, in areas that seem secure and areas where we know are

03:05least that are less secure and go make the pitch that the vision that we have for the

03:11future is one where we are seeing economic growth, economic opportunity and work, wages

03:17and wealth for all and not just some.

03:19The people who win that argument are the ones who are going to win this election.

03:24And so we're not going to win based on fear.

03:26And you're right.

03:27We're not going to win based on winning a prosecutorial argument.

03:30You're going to win based on putting together a vision for the future that people see themselves

03:35included in, making them feel like their fingerprints can be on our future.

03:39And if we do that, then I'm telling you, hope will win this day and November will turn out

03:43well for the vice president.

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