9/15/24

Sarah McBride Wins her Primary Posed to be the first Transgender US Representative

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Sarah McBride has won her primary and is posed to become the first transgender woman to be elected to the US Congress.

She was asked in an interview about her primary win, "How do you balance the work you want to do – which is broad, and covers a lot of different policies — with the demand to be a spokesperson for trans people?"

State Senator McBride answered, "Well, I’ve been a spokesperson for the movement, and there are people doing that work. To do right by the LGBTQ community, I need to simply be the best member of Congress that I can be, and show that when you elect trans people or LGBTQ people or people of any underrepresented background, they can do the job as well as anyone else.

Being the best that she can be means looking out for everyone. Sarah McBride did that in the video below by holding the author of an anti-trans bill accountable.

McBride won Tuesday’s primary over businessmen Earl Cooper and Elias Weir, AP Reports neither of whom reported raising any money for their campaigns. Cooper is a political newcomer, while Weir finished dead last in a 2016 congressional primary with less than 1% of the vote.

McBride, meanwhile, raised almost $3 million in contributions from around the country. McBride achieved national recognition at the 2016 Democratic National Convention as the first openly transgender person to address a major party convention in the United States.

McBride will face Republican James Whalen IIII, a retired state police officer and construction company owner from Millsboro, who won the GOP primary race against Donyale Hall, a Dover businesswoman and a Gulf War-era veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

Democrats have held the seat since 2010.

While serving as a Delaware State Senator Vote Right shows that McBride:

  • Cosponsored a bill that requires all health benefit plans provided by medicaid to cover abortions and the termination of women's pregnancy in Delaware.
  • Voted to pass a bill that authorizes the prescription of PREP and other preventative HIV medications in the state of Delaware.
  • Voted to pass a bill that requires the state electoral college delegates go to the winner of the popular vote count.
 
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