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Wes Moore, positioning himself as a national Democratic figure ahead of a potential 2028 White House run, faces deepening friction with organized labor in his home state — a coalition central to any Democratic primary.
AFL-CIO has withheld an endorsement of Moore's reelection campaign, reversing its 2022 general-election backing, while airport workers have launched a public campaign against the governor over wages.
AFL-CIO Endorsement Withheld, Workers Launch Campaign Donna Edwards, president of the Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO, told Axios that Moore's team did not return an endorsement questionnaire — a prerequisite for the organization to consider backing any candidate.
Sources told Axios the problem runs deeper: no one at the group's spring meeting spoke in favor of endorsing Moore.
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