Wesley John “Wes” Moore, the Baltimore man featured by Gov. Moore in his 2010 New York Times bestseller, The Other Wes Moore, was Eebron’s other nephew.

In 2022, Moore won a competitive Democratic primary to succeed two-term Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. Facing a Trump 2020 election-denier, Dan Cox, Moore won in a landslide.

In 2022, I identified two rising stars who could redefine America’s political future: Wes Moore and Kari Lake. I was half-right. In 2022, Lake was the Republican candidate for governor in Arizona.