Sarah McBride
Democrat · DE · U.S. House
DE-1 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Sarah McBride is on the ballot. Sarah McBride vs. Joseph Arminio.
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 1st 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
- 1.7 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 383 of 439 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 · 95 members
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Committees
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 40 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
LaTosha Brown’s Case for America’s First Department of DemocracyWeekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and …
Ms. Magazine · September 19, 2026
Officials Remove Republican Candidate From Forum After ‘Misgendering’ Transgender Rep Sarah McBrideA Republican House candidate was removed from a Delaware forum after twice refusing to use female terms for his transgender opponent, Sarah McBride.
The Daily Caller · September 18, 2026- Delaware GOP House candidate pressured by fellow party member to drop out of race after transphobic comments
GOP U.S. House candidate Joseph Arminio was removed from a candidate forum Thursday after repeatedly misgendering Democrat U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride. Dr. Mike Katz, the Republican candidate for Delaware’s U.S. Senate seat, is calling on his fellow party member …
Freerepublic.com · September 18, 2026 
Sarah McBride sails toward reelection after advancing unopposed in Delaware Democratic primaryU.S. Rep. Sarah McBride secured the Democratic nomination for a second term representing Delaware on Tuesday without facing a primary challenger. By Wednesday, she was back to emphasizing the work rather than the history.
Advocate.com · September 16, 2026
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