The November midterms broadened the party’s bench for potential presidential contenders, though none have said they would challenge Biden if he runs.
A group of women in festive outfits — headbands with bells and blinking lights, sparkling dresses and red and green sweaters — asked New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy to pose for a photo as he walked out of the elevator bank. Staff at the Democratic Governors Association rearranged the schedule at the last minute to accommodate a party for the governors and attendees to watch the United States take on the Netherlands in the first round of the knockout stage of the World Cup.
No Democratic governor has said they plan to challenge Biden should he go through with a reelection effort, as many fully expect him to do. Instead, the governors — even the most ambitious ones — vow in both public and private to be full-throated supporters of Biden’s 2024 campaign. Democrats were also buzzing about the new faces in the group: Maryland Gov.-elect Wes Moore — an Army veteran and Rhodes Scholar set to become his state’s first Black governor — and Shapiro impressed Democrats in private meetings. And while Massachusetts Gov.-elect Maura Healy — a lesbian set to become her state’s first female governor — did not travel to New Orleans, party operatives have also tapped her as a potential future leader.
“Or being that 11-year-old kid who had handcuffs on his wrist because we came up within communities that were over-policed,” Moore continued. “Or being the person who — it wasn’t until I was 14-years-old that my mother got her first job that gave her benefits.”
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