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Widow of Elijah Cummings to run for his House seat

By Mike Brest
Published November 12, 2019 12:37pm ET
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Widow of Elijah Cummings to run for his House seat
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio poses for a photo with Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., right, during a re-enactment the House oath-of-office, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cummings' wife Maya Rockeymoore is at center. | (Susan Walsh/AP)

The widow of Rep. Elijah Cummings revealed she is planning to run for her husband’s vacant Maryland congressional seat.

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, 48, confirmed her intent to run for Maryland’s 7th Congressional District during a Monday night interview on The Rachel Maddow Show.

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