Heated Speaker vote delays swearing in for Maryland’s freshman House class

All of Maryland’s incoming House class, including Johnny Olszewski Jr., April McClain Delaney and Sarah Elfreth, are Democrats who believe they can bridge the gap between Republicans, though Olszewski and Delaney told The Baltimore Banner they’d prefer to see Democratic minority leader Hakeem Jeffries in the House’s top seat.

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Delaney believes she can bridge the fissure between Democrats and Republicans with her “common sense, common ground” mindset.

“Competitiveness, innovation. These are things the GOP says they want to work on,” Delaney said. “We’re two seats apart from the Republicans. The [Democratic] caucus is going to be very united. The GOP is going to have to work with us.”