First trans congresswoman says Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ ads aimed to ‘fear-monger’

Sarah McBride, who made history last week by becoming the first out transgender person to be elected to the US congress, has said Donald Trump’s anti-trans ads were an attempt to “fear-monger and scapegoat”. 

McBride, who also made history in 2020 as the first trans woman to be elected to a state senate, defeated Republican John Whalen in the elections on 5 November, to win Delaware’s at-large seat in the US house of representatives.

Having originally run for office to honour her husband, Andrew Cray, who died in 2014, McBride told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that she didn’t think it was the adverts, which reportedly cost Republicans almost $215 million (£169 million), that swung the presidential election in Trump’s favour.

Ads aimed to ‘distract and divide’

“I think those ads were part

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