Wes Moore picked up support from state Senate President Bill Ferguson and U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, two influential leaders in the voter-rich Baltimore region.
The Baltimore endorsements, which come quite late in the contest with some mail-in ballots having already gone out, hail from a battleground region that has been critical in launching candidates to victory in November. And they follow some supporters of former Prince George’s county executiveIf someone other than Moore wins next month, that candidate will need to woo the Democratic officials who threw their support behind someone else.
For some leading candidates, that might be a tougher task. State Comptroller Peter Franchot, for example, made his opposition to what he’s called the “Annapolis Machine” a central part of his brand, denigrating legislative leaders for negotiating in private and lining up support before revealing their public plans.
In 2018, former Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ben Jealous lost the general election against incumbent Gov. Larry Hogan after failing to build strong support within the Democratic establishment following his primary victory. Todd Eberly, a political science professor at St. Mary’s College, said he would imagine that Democrats learned a bruising lesson during the last election, four years ago: “When the party doesn’t coalesce behind a candidate, you handicap that candidate.”
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