December 20th, 2022 by WCBC Radio

Maryland Republicans, still stinging from big statewide losses in the midterm elections, have chosen Nicole Beus Harris as its new statewide chair. The wife of Congressman Andy Harris, the only Republican in Maryland’s congressional delegation, Beus Harris was selected at the party’s state convention earlier this month in Hanover. Beus Harris’s selection comes in the wake of crushing defeats for GOP candidates in all statewide elections last month, as well as a number of heavy losses in local, county, and legislative races. She will try to build Republican support in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a nearly two-to-one margin. Maryland’s Lt Governor Boyd Rutherford said with so many Republicans in the state still committed to former President Donald Trump, rebuilding and rebranding the GOP won’t be easy…