Sarah McBride
Democrat · DE · U.S. House
Bio
Sarah Elizabeth McBride is an American politician, author, and LGBTQ rights activist serving as the U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Delaware Senate from 2021 to 2025, representing the state's 1st senate district. Prior, she was the national press secretary of the Human Rights Campaign from 2016 to 2021. McBride is the nation's highest ranking openly transgender elected official and the first openly transgender member of the United States Congress. Her 2024 congressional campaign is the subject of the 2025 documentary State of Firsts.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.6 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 383 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 36
- Wilmington, DE · 302-830-2330
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $15k – $50k
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $15k – $50k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 1 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Sarah McBride's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Sarah McBride (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where McBridesits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Committees
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 39 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating McBride's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Democrat Brian Poindexter: 'No One Credibly Accused' of Abuse Like Rep. Max Miller Belongs in CongressDemocratic congressional candidate Brian Poindexter on Sunday joined a growing chorus of people across the political spectrum arguing that Republican Rep. Max Miller shouldn't remain a member of the US House of Representatives over domestic abuse allegations.…
Common Dreams · August 2, 2026
Documentary ‘State of Firsts’ Follows Sarah McBride’s Historic Journey to CongressA new documentary, State of Firsts, released during Pride Month, chronicles Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.)’s historic path to Congress amid growing anti-transgender rhetoric. It is now showing in select theaters across the country. Directed by trans filmmaker Ch…
Ms. Magazine · July 22, 2026
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The New Republic · July 21, 2026
Sarah McBride went everywhere in Delaware and heard the same warning at all 57 stopsDelaware has 10 cities, 44 towns and three villages. To launch her campaign for a second term in Congress, U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride, the Democrat who represents them all, visited all 57 of those incorporated communities in 57 hours.
Advocate.com · July 14, 2026
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