After almost a week, Maryland's 6th District has a winner

WASHINGTON — With Election Day just about in the rearview mirror, some Congressional races still have not been called. In Maryland, the 6th district election just got its official AP call for Democrat April McClain Delaney.

But let's rewind to Wednesday of last week when McClain Delaney held a roughly 320-vote lead. Then as mail-in ballots started to get counted she slowly built a more than 16,000 vote lead. Which grew enough for the AP to call the race.

We sat down with Congresswoman-elect McClain Delaney about the tense days since Election Day and how she will work with Republicans. Especially as it becomes more likely that Republicans will control all three branches of government.

WUSA9 asked her what the last few days brought for her campaign as she saw the returns coming in and still no call for the race until the weekend.

“We felt very optimistic because we were just waiting for the counting of the mail-in ballots and that skew more democratic usually,” she said. “So we've been building our lead and then (Sunday) the AP called it, I'm very excited.”

In an election where every seat held the potential to swing Congress, we wanted to know how that registered with her campaign.

“It's rare that Maryland has one of these key races that really determine either the Senate or the House,” she said. “You cannot flip the house if you lose seats. So it was really important to keep it. I was very excited.”

“It's still a very narrow path for us to flip the House at this point. I'm crossing my fingers that we have a perfect path through, we might fall short. But it's very important.”

As her race was called, others followed suit across the country. But the results have started to show Republicans may likely control the House of Representatives as well. So, how would her key issues work across the aisle?

“I think that there is still a lot of impetus on both sides to move forward on immigration because I think that is a big pressing issue, obviously,” she said. “I think that we've got to look at a lot of issues concerning affordability and how we can look at helping families make ends meet.”