Sarah McBride

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567 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard Jun 2025

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The Ezra Klein Show · Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights · 17 Jun 2025 podcast

I've been developing relationships with colleagues on the other side of the aisle.

Part of my responsibility in this moment is to show that when someone like me gets elected to public office, we can do the whole job.

And that means working with people who disagree with me, including on issues that are deeply personal.

The folks who are coming after me, I mean, look, it's been hard.

But I know, I know that they are coming after me not because they are deeply passionate about bathroom policy.

They're coming after me because they are employing the strategies of reality TV.

And the best way to get attention in a body of 435 people is to throw wine in someone's face.

That gets you a little attention.

But if that person that you're throwing wine in their face, if they respond by throwing wine in your face, it creates a beef, which gets you a season-long story arc.

I knew that they were trying to bait me into a fight to get attention.

And I refused to be used as a political pawn.

I refused to give them not only the power of derailing me, but the incentive to continue to come after me.

And this was a prime example.

This was a prime example of how to fight smart that is demonized on our own side.

Because the grace that I didn't get wasn't just on the right.

There was a lot of critique on the left.

And I understand when you're a first, people viscerally feel your highs and they also viscerally feel your lows.

But what would me fighting back in that moment have done?

It wouldn't have stopped the ban and it would only have incentivized further attacks and continued behavior like that.

And sometimes we have to understand that

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