Maryland voters head to polls in primary race to fill Elijah Cummings' seat

Fox News ^ | 2/04/20 | Andrew O'Reilly

[Libloather]

Maryland voters in the Baltimore area are heading to the polls Tuesday to choose who will be their party’s nominee to finish the rest of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings' term in Congress.

The race to fill the vacated seat is a crowded one, with 24 Democrats and eight Republicans vying for their parties’ nomination in the 7th Congressional District special primary. Given the heavily-Democrat makeup of the district, however, whoever wins the primary is expected to be the candidate to fill Cummings’ seat.

A special general election will take place on April 28 -- the same day that Maryland holds its statewide primary election in the 2020 presidential race. The candidate who wins the seat will serve out the remaining months of Cummings' term, while candidates who want to seek the seat after that had until Jan. 24 to file for the April 28 primary.

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The race to fill the seat has become something of a family battle as two of Cummings’ daughters have thrown their support behind Harry Spikes, a former staffer for Cummings -- despite Cummings’ second wife, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, also running.

“My sister and I are supporting Harry Spikes for Congress because for the past 15 years he’s worked alongside our father to meet the needs of the people of the [Maryland] 7th Congressional District,” Jennifer Cummings said in a letter obtained by The Washington Post in November.

[Fedora]

Here's the KeyWiki entry for Mitchell: Parren Mitchell. A few items to add: in 1978, as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Mitchell spoke at a press conference representing the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy (CNFMP), an umbrella organization cofounded by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) with member organizations including the National Lawyers Guild, the International Longshoremen's Union, the United Electrial, Radio, and Machine Workers and featuring on its speakers bureau Terry Provance, U.S. delegate to the Soviet-controlled World Peace Council. In 1983, Mitchell endorsed a demonstration against Reagan's Cental American policy called the People's Anti-War Mobilization, organized by the Workers World Party. in 1984, Mitchell was one of the Congressmen supporting an economic program advanced by Gar Alperovitz, a founding fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. Mitchell requested budget studies from IPS in 1978 and 1982.

[Ezekiel]

Maryland voters in the Baltimore area are heading to the polls Tuesday to choose who will be their party’s nominee to finish the rest of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings' term in Congress.

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The race to fill the seat has become something of a family battle...

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