Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaks on stage through the third day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, an Military veteran of the Afghanistan struggle, took a jab at former President Donald Trump’s medical deferment from the Vietnam Struggle in his speech tonight.
“I joined the Military once I was 17. In actual fact, I used to be too younger to signal the paperwork. I needed to ask my mother signal the paperwork for me as a result of I haven’t got bone spurs,” he mentioned.
Trump’s Vietnam deferment was purportedly for bone spurs.
Moore, the primary Black governor of Maryland, additionally spoke on his state’s Key Bridge collapse earlier this summer season that killed six individuals. The catastrophe requires a bridge reconstruction and meant the port of Baltimore was closed for a while.
He mentioned although he spoke with President Joe Biden when the bridge collapsed, it was Vice President Kamala Harris that was one of many first calls within the morning to supply him help.
Moore, seen by some as a doable future presidential candidate, and a few of the audio system following him tonight, together with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, are seen as rising stars within the Democratic social gathering.
Watch Moore’s full remarks: