Dover (USA): Democratic candidate Sarah McBride has won a seat in the state senate from Delaware and is the country’s first transgender state senator since being sworn in. Will become. McBride won the election by defeating Republican candidate Steve Washington.
McBride said Tuesday night, “I think tonight’s result shows that the residents of this district are open-minded and they look at the intentions of the candidates, not their identities. I always knew that. “
“I hope a LGBTQ child in Delaware or elsewhere in the country will see these results and understand that our democracy is for them,” he said. McBride served in the White House under former President Barack Obama and addressed the party’s national convention in 2016. She was the first transgender to do so. Delaware’s seat fell vacant after long-time state senator Harris McDowell retired, which McBride won.
