Delaware makes history as Sarah McBride and Lisa Blunt Rochester take the oath in Washington

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : McBride also wants to expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing, lower its eligibility age and provide a public option.
59% : "My hope was that in being there my presence was a reminder of the humanity of trans people, of the fact that there were 800,000 people living in this country that were impacted by the president's policies," she said in the 2015 interview with The Post.
58% : She eventually became the deputy secretary of the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services and was appointed Delaware's first female and first Black labor secretary in 1998.
56% : "She told the AP that Cray's death affirmed her religious faith and that she often seeks to follow his example of "principled grace" and compassion toward anti-LGBTQ politicians.
42% : McBride said in a June interview that Trump and his allies' "obsession with trans people" is part of a "manufactured culture war" to serve as a distraction that gets through in the first place due to a "knowledge gap" about LGBTQ people.
41% : Her congressional campaign website laid out myriad progressive issues including increasing the federal minimum wage to $15, investing in renewable energy, banning assault weapons, legalizing cannabis, and guaranteeing paid sick time and paid medical and family leave.
39% : She said in her campaign that she would fight efforts to privatize Medicare and Medicaid.
34% : She enters Congress as Trump and his surrogates have frequently fixated on transgender people during his rallies and attacked them in ads, including one that featured an image of Assistant U.S. Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, the former Pennsylvania physician general and secretary of health and the first openly transgender person confirmed by the Senate to a federal position.

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