Gov. Wes Moore says Democrats will hold the White House by selling voters on VP Kamala Harris' vision for the future -- and he explained why prosecuting Donald Trump on the campaign trail won't be enough.
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00:00I have never seen fortunes change in two days like I've seen this week.
00:10From the time that Joe Biden said he wasn't going to run to now, only two days.
00:17This party has not only solidified, but it's energized, raised a ton of money, and there
00:25is unity where I hadn't seen it for years.
00:29I want to just get your reaction to it, because it's just amazing to me.
00:33It's really exciting, and I think it goes back to two different reasons.
00:36The first is Joe Biden.
00:38I think there's a deep level of respect and admiration that the party has for Joe Biden.
00:43I think what he did was remarkably selfless, and something that, frankly, you have not
00:48seen that many times in American history.
00:50The second is, it's the vice president.
00:52It's Kamala Harris.
00:54It's the public servant that she is.
00:56It's the fact that everything that we've been able to get done as governors and as
01:00leaders around the country, it's because we've been doing it in partnership with the Biden-Harris
01:03administration.
01:05She has been a partner the entire way through.
01:07I think that people's confidence in her has also mattered in all this as well.
01:11I feel like for the past three weeks, unfortunately, we have spent more time focusing on walking
01:16gates and speech patterns than we are that the danger that a potential Donald Trump administration
01:23and a Trump-Vance administration presents to the future of this country.
01:27And so I feel like now we have the opportunity to actually prosecute the case, prosecute
01:32the past, which is Donald Trump's past behavior, and the fact that we've never seen a situation
01:38like this, where you have someone who is a twice-impeached, multiple-time convicted and
01:43indicted person running for president of the United States, someone who, frankly, could
01:48not join the military, but is now trying to be the commander in chief.
01:52If she's just going to prosecute something that's already been prosecuted, doesn't it
01:58kind of fall on deaf ears and don't you need to take some kind of different approach?
02:03Because it just doesn't seem to matter.
02:06You're right.
02:07That's not going to be enough.
02:10Voters are not going to vote on the ability to prosecute a case.
02:14They're going to vote on the ability to have a vision for the hope and future for them
02:17and their families.
02:18And, you know, we do have a situation where, you know, with our vice president, we have
02:23someone who has devoted her time and her life to being able to fight for our future and
02:28our freedoms.
02:29And, frankly, she's running against someone in the former president who is focusing his
02:34time, focusing on his future and his freedoms.
02:39That's the fundamental question that we have that the American people are going to have
02:42to answer for.
02:44But you're not.
02:45But you're right.
02:46You're not going to win an election by making people scared of something.
02:49You're going to win an election by making people hopeful of something.
02:53And we now have 105 days to be able to make the case to the American people all over this
02:59country in red areas, in blue areas, in areas that seem secure and areas where we know are
03:05least that are less secure and go make the pitch that the vision that we have for the
03:11future is one where we are seeing economic growth, economic opportunity and work, wages
03:17and wealth for all and not just some.
03:19The people who win that argument are the ones who are going to win this election.
03:24And so we're not going to win based on fear.
03:26And you're right.
03:27We're not going to win based on winning a prosecutorial argument.
03:30You're going to win based on putting together a vision for the future that people see themselves
03:35included in, making them feel like their fingerprints can be on our future.
03:39And if we do that, then I'm telling you, hope will win this day and November will turn out
03:43well for the vice president.