Jackie Calmes: “Tops some of the up-and-comers are two new governors, Wes Moore and Josh Shapiro, who demolished Trump-backed Republicans in November. Moore, an Army veteran of Afghanistan, former Rhodes Scholar, writer and funding banker, is the primary Black governor of Maryland. Shapiro, former Pennsylvania legal professional common, received in his swing state at the energy of his popularity as a consensus-builder and on his prominence in preventing Republican efforts to overturn Pennsylvania’s 2020 election effects.”
“Their time could well come. But among those Democrats seasoned enough now for the presidential arena are more experienced governors, including Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan and North Carolina’s Roy Cooper, both of whom impressively won reelection in their battleground states and have since gained national attention for their fights for abortion rights in theirstates. Second-term blue-state leaders JB Pritzker of Illinois, a billionaire whose family owns the Hyatt chain, and Phil Murphy of New Jersey, a former Goldman Sachs executive and ambassador to Germany, similarly have raised their profiles, speaking out against Trump and Republican extremism.”
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