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Maryland Governor Wes Moore said Tuesday that he'd work across the aisle on immigration with new White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
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Moore was asked at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's B20 Summit whether he could get something done with Miller, an immigration hardliner who concocted President Donald Trump's family separation policy during the Republican's first term.
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'I will work with anybody.
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I will bow to nobody,'
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answered Moore, who is among the Democrats reportedly toying with a 2028 presidential bid.
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Moore easily won reelection last week, though will be term limited come January.
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Democrats walloped Republicans in the midterms, in part due to the Trump administration's overzealous immigration policy.
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The President responded to the losses by appointing his toughest voice on immigration to replace outgoing Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
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At the same time, Trump pushed during a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday that he would 'love to do something on immigration' with the Democratic Party.
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Moore sang a similar tune on Tuesday.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore said at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's B20 Summit Tuesday that he would work with 'anybody' including new White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on immigration.
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Moore is photographed at a conference earlier this year
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After Republicans experienced a shellacking in the midterms, President Donald Trump replaced White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller (pictured), his administration's most hardline official on immigration
'I think that there is a real window to be able to get something productive and constructive done and issues like immigration, on issues like AI safety,' Moore said.
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Still, he remained immensely critical of Miller.
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'It is not lost on me at all that Stephen Miller is the architect of some of the most racist, xenophobic, homophobic policies that we have in the United States of America and I think we need to be honest about that,' Moore said.
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Beyond family separation, Miller helped pen the so-called 'Muslim ban' and has pressed for green card and asylum restrictions.
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He's also pushed to dismantle federal LGBTQ protections.
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'I wish that there was a different team, because I think the well of distrust that Stephen Miller and his policies have fostered have been deeply poisonous,' Moore continued.
'But I still want to make sure that we’re doing good things on behalf of the people of our jurisdictions, and I do think we have a window to do it,' the Maryland governor added.
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Moore won his reelection bid last week overwhelmingly, earning 64 percent of the vote to rival Dan Cox's 32 percent, with 88 percent of the vote reporting.
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore (left) poses for a picture alongside Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin (right) at a rally in Silver Spring ahead of last week's election.
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Moore easily won reelection garnering 64 percent of the vote
While campaigning, Moore denied he was interested in a White House bid next.
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But in July, for instance, he traveled to South Carolina, where Democrats will host their first-in-the-nation primary in 2028.
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Moore is also barely bubbling up in polling.
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The most recent Democratic 2028 poll, conducted by Atlas Intel between October 31 and November 1 showed the Maryland governor with just 1 percent support.
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Senator Jon Ossoff was leading the pack with 18.2 percent, followed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 17.6 percent.
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