The 119th Congress will have several members whose elections made history.

One of them is Representative-elect Sarah McBride, a state senator who won Delaware's

at-large seat in the House and becomes the first openly transgender member of the United

States Congress.

She joins me now.

Welcome.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

First and foremost, congratulations.

Thank you.

We should note, you defeated your Republican opponent by a comfortable margin.

But this also happened in the backdrop of a campaign that specifically included a lot of anti-transgender

TV ads by the Trump campaign.

What does your win say to you about your constituents?

I think this election, this result reinforces what I've seen throughout my life, which is that

Delawareans are fair-minded and that in our state of neighbors, we judge candidates based on

their ideas and not their identities. I ran on my track record of bipartisan results in the Delaware State Senate, passing paid

family and medical leave in the largest investment in our state's Medicaid program since

the Affordable Care Act passed, and on what I would do in Congress, and that's to focus

on bringing down costs facing families, to provide affordable housing, child care, and

health care to every single one of child care, and health care to

every single one of my neighbors. And voters responded to that, even with all of the anti-trans ads,

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