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.

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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.

 

I’m ready to be a bold changemaker in Congress, but I need your help. Can you help us make history by become a Founding Donor today?https://t.co/Dnj3FKQG4l

— Sen. Sarah McBride (@SarahEMcBride) June 26, 2023

Kamala Harris Promise to End Rent Price Fixing is Winning Voters Over

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Kamala Harris is surging ahead in the polls in crucial demographics after promising to take on corporate Rent Price Fixing and ending taxes on tips.

Her promise to end rent price fixing is especially credible since the DOJ under US Attorney General Merrick Garland is currently suing Realpage, the website that fueled the latest rent increases.

Democrat Kamala Harris has surged ahead of Republican Donald Trump, 48%-43%, in a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll found.

The vice president's small lead was fueled by big shifts among some key demographic groups traditionally crucial for Democrats, including Hispanic and Black voters and young people, USA Today Reported. Among those with annual incomes of less than $20,000, in the biggest change, a three-point Trump edge over Biden in June has become a 23-point Harris advantage over Trump in August.

Mine is but one story but it may be representative of many lower-income people, especially minorities.

The representative of the corporation that manages my apartment complex asked if I had heard of the "rent website" meaning Realpage when I questioned the one hundred dollar rent increase last year. Her answer was "well, everybody is doing it".

As much as I didn't like it I couldn't move as nearby rents had similarly skyrocketed. This year I found rents hundreds of dollars less during a search of my area, but it didn't make sense to move within Texas because of Paxton's unrelenting war on Trans rights.

So much to the corporate representative delight I decided to forgo fleeing to a state with trans rights protected by law and extended my stay to 13 years by signing another lease. I knew it was price fixing but last year's rent increase had drained my bank account and left me able to save enough to move out of Texas.

Unmentioned is the broader economic impact. The car dealership where I have bought my last two new vehicles desperately wants my car as a trade-in for a new car. It seems too few people are trading in for new cars leaving dealerships with empty lots.

Apparently, I along with many others would gladly trade our cars in especially given the very generous terms offered, but I can't for all of the reasons above.

While the poll is indeed good news proving people are paying attention we know what happens when we lift our foot off the accelerator. 

#Understandtheassignment Visit KamalaHarris.com and click the volunteer tab to see how you can help in your locality and nationaly.

And lastly, Vote as if your country would be destroyed if you didn't because surely it will.