Sarah McBride originally ran for office to honour her late husband. He’d be so proud today

Democrat Sarah McBride, who has made history by becoming the first out trans person to be elected to congress, has said she originally ran for office to honour her husband, Andrew Cray, who died in 2014.

Sarah McBride, who also broke new ground in 2020 as the first trans woman to be elected to a state senate, beat Republican John Whalen on Tuesday (5 November) to win the Delaware seat in the US house of representatives. She polled 57.7 per cent of the vote.

Ahead of the election, she said that if she won, it would be thanks to her late husband: trans man and LGBTQ+ rights activist Andrew (Andy) Cray, who died of cancer just four days after their wedding, and informed much of her politics to this day.

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