“We did it. We won the general election,” tweeted Sarah McBride on Nov. 3, after the numbers came in. The LGBTQIA+ activist made history on Tuesday night by defeating Republican candidate Steve Washington to replace Sen. Harris McDowell, a Democrat, in the Delaware state senate.
Sarah, 30, is the first openly transgender person to hold a state senate position, an accomplishment that Sarah hoped “shows an LGBTQ kid that our democracy is big enough for them too.” Sarah, in an interview with The New York Times after the win, said she was “incredibly grateful” to the residents of her district – Wilmington, which leans heavily to the left – and that she hopes her victory sends a “message to a young person struggling with where they fit and how