Sarah McBride

As a child in Wilmington, Sarah McBride built models of the White House and earned the elementary school nickname “little president.”¹ She is an aunt of seven and the author of the 2018 memoir Tomorrow Will Be Different, with a foreword by Joe Biden.² She married her late husband, Andrew Cray, in 2014.²

McBride studied political science at American University, where she served as student government president, and interned in the Obama White House.¹ Her work before elected office included jobs with Delaware officials Jack Markell and Beau Biden and serving as the Human Rights Campaign's national spokesperson.²

Elected to Delaware's Senate in 2020, she became the lead Senate sponsor of the Healthy Delaware Families Act, signed into law in 2022.¹³ The resulting paid leave program made benefits available in 2026, providing eligible workers time away for qualifying family and medical needs.⁴ Her 2024 congressional victory made her the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.⁵

McBride serves on the Foreign Affairs and Science, Space, and Technology committees and co-leads a Democratic working group on caregiving.² Her second term agenda emphasizes health care, housing and child care costs, expanded health coverage and oversight of immigration enforcement.⁵ She faces Republican Joseph Arminio on November 3.⁶