Forty-six Democrats broke with their party to support legislation named after the murdered Georgia college student Laken Riley. In a statement to The 19th, Craig said that Flanagan’s attacks over her vote on the Laken Riley Act don’t take into account her work fighting the administration on the issue. In Maryland, Rep. April McClain Delaney overcame a primary challenge from former Rep. David Trone, but not before she walked back her support for the Laken Riley Act. “No one who voted for the Laken Riley Act should have any role in the future leadership of the Democratic Party in this country. At the time of the Laken Riley Act vote, she said, Republicans created a “boogeyman” out of immigration, and there was nothing competing against that vision.