Representative-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., critiqued the Republican Party for focusing on “culture wars,” particularly transgender issues, during the campaign season.
Speaking at a news conference in Washington, D.C., McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, emphasized that it was the Republican Party, under Donald Trump, that put the spotlight on these issues, especially through television ads targeting Vice President Kamala Harris’s stance on transgender rights.
McBride shared that voters in her diverse district—urban, suburban, and rural—were not concerned with these cultural debates but were more focused on tangible issues such as building a stronger economy, ensuring affordable healthcare, housing, and child care, and addressing the growing inaccessibility of the American Dream.
She criticized the Trump campaign’s ads, which portrayed Harris as overly focused on transgender rights, arguing that these distractions were used to avoid discussions about critical policy solutions that would address voters’ real concerns.