Maryland governor Wes Moore, on ABC News’ This Week yesterday morning:
MARTHA RADDATZ: You had been a very strong supporter of Joe Biden staying in the race just a few days after that disastrous debate, saying he is not going to take himself out of the race, nor should he. Did your concerns grow as the weeks went on?
GOV. WES MOORE, (D) MARYLAND: Well, you know, I – I – I had private conversations with the – with the president. And I – and I’m a big believer that when you care about somebody you tell them the truth. And I had private conversations where I was telling the president the truth.
I also know that the president deserved better than people who were running around him and going into public and demanding that the president of the United States step down, particularly when you look at the track record of the Biden-Harris administration. I’ve had a phenomenal partner in the Biden-Harris administration to be able to deliver the kind of results that we needed in Maryland. And so I knew that if I – if he said that he was going to continue pushing forward, that I was going to stand with him.
RADDATZ: But you said you told him the truth. What was the truth?
MOORE: Well, I think the truth that there are real concerns. There are real concerns that I know that people had felt, but also that people were telling me that they had felt. I also know that, you know, I’m a – I’m a loyalty person. And I believe that you can have proper conversations and tell people the truth and – and, you know, and be able to tell them what you’re hearing without also then turning around and – and publicly then trying to embarrass them.
This is a kind way of saying that Governor Moore felt that the truth was that Joe Biden was no longer capable of effectively running for reelection or being president for another four years, but he insisted otherwise to the public. In late June, after Biden’s abysmal debate, Moore went on Face the Nation and declared, “Joe Biden is not going to take himself out of this race — nor should he. . . . Joe Biden is our nominee, Joe Biden is our leader, and Joe Biden has earned — and Joe Biden deserves — the confidence, the respect, and frankly the partnership that we now have to provide to him.”
Back in early July, Moore issued a statement declaring, “President Biden is the partner I need in the White House, now and for the next four years. . . . I know Joe Biden’s resolve because I saw it first-hand when he stood by the people of Maryland every step of the way as we reopened the Port of Baltimore. . . . I know President Biden has Maryland’s back, so I’ve got his.”
Apparently, all along Moore had “real concerns,” but the American people weren’t entitled to know what he really thought.