WASHINGTON (TNND) — Representative-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., said Monday the Republican Party was focused on “culture wars” and transgender people during the campaign season.
“Let’s be clear. The party that was focused on culture wars, the party that was focused on trans people was the Republican Party,” she said during a news conference in Washington, D.C.. “It was Donald Trump.”
McBride, who will become the first openly transgender member of Congress, called some Republicans’ television advertisements “attacks” that didn’t affect Delaware voters.
“What I was hearing from voters across the state of Delaware – My district is urban, suburban and rural. It looks like America. And what I was hearing was not the ads that Donald Trump was putting on the air,” McBride explained.
Instead, she said, residents were discussing the need to build an economy that “works for everyone” and to guarantee affordable health care, housing and child care for everybody in the U.S. Voters were also talking about how the “American Dream” is “increasingly inaccessible and unaffordable,” according to McBride.
The Trump campaign released television advertisements focusing on Vice President Kamala Harris’s record with transgender issues. One of the advertisements contains 2019 footage of Harris discussing ensuring transgender inmates in California state prisons would receive gender transition procedures.
“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you,” the advertisement concludes.
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McBride added that people have to ask why a politician would try to make an issue the most important one when it only affects a relatively small number of people in some states.
“And the answer to that question is that Donald Trump was trying to divide and distract from the fact that he has absolutely no policy solutions for the issues that are actually keeping voters up at night, the issues that I was hearing about on the campaign trail,” she said.
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