Clemencies, Concerts and Oprah’s Cash: Is Wes Moore the Next Obama?

Less than an hour into Maggie Rogers’ sold-out show Sunday in Maryland, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter brought out a surprising special guest onstage: Gov. Wes Moore.

The Democrat, dressed in blue jeans and a black t-shirt with the slogan “Maryland Tough, Baltimore Strong,” was greeted with an ear-shattering round of applause from the 20,000 concertgoers—an acclamation that only grew when Moore proclaimed June 16 as “Maggie Rogers Day” in the state.

Hours later, Moore made another—starkly different—announcement when he signed an executive order pardoning more than 175,000 marijuana-related convictions in one of the largest-ever acts of clemency involving low-level drug offenses.

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