Thank you for all the comments and I went ahead and increased the fee to the current ask on mempool.  Also, thanks for letting me know that cancel in Electrum is not really "Cancel".  I will watch more closely on how I am sending in the future.  Appreciate your responses.

I sent a transaction yesterday that still was not confirmed so I cancelled it and resent today with a higher mining fee but still unconfirmed.  This is unusual as it usually confirms at least within a few hours.