Md.’s Wes Moore wants to inspire ‘the disaffected.’ He’s trying at the DNC.

On his first night in town, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore walked into a bar filled with young and influential social media content creators, hoping to talk about poverty. He pulled up a stool next to a Barbie doll in a hot pink pantsuit. A phone camera focused on him, Moore leaned toward Lil Gretch, the raven-haired doll Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer uses as a social media avatar, and said: “I gotta talk to you about the child tax credit. I’m with you. Let’s end child poverty together.” He tapped her plastic hand in a micro high-five.