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It Was Moore’s Blue Wave in Maryland

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J. Barry O'Connell
Nov 07, 2026
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It Was Moore’s Blue Wave

November 6, 2026 (numbers as of the Nov 6 canvass; District 4 and Cook still counting)

It was a blue wave, and everybody knows it. What everybody does not know yet is that in Maryland, it had an author. Wes Moore did not just run for reelection. He endorsed more than two hundred Democrats, put millions of dollars behind them, and told the state to vote the whole ticket — and then he framed the ballot question that was supposed to fail as a referendum on Donald Trump, and it passed with sixty percent of the vote. The wave was real. But in Maryland, the wave was Moore’s.

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