Sarah McBride

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I think that the approach that I have tried to take is to keep our party together, to welcome imperfect allies, both as a short-term necessity and as a long-term imperative.

Because if you aren't engaging in conversation with people who enter with goodwill and good intentions and in good faith, but have questions and might disagree with you on some things, there is no way for you to change their hearts and minds in the long run on those issues that you continue to disagree on.

And so I think...

We have real receipts.

Our caucus has real receipts and our commitment to this community.

I think I have real receipts and being a part of that effort to keep people together.

And I'm also proud that this approach has not only paid off with some of my Democratic colleagues, but it's not

only resulted in me being able to bring some Republicans in to vote against an egregious anti-trans bill that my former colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced, but it's then also allowed me to be more effective because of the way that I have navigated the first year in Congress, including the attacks early on.

A number of my Republican colleagues knew that

I was someone who was willing to have an outstretched hand, that I was someone who was willing to work across disagreement.

And so not only would these colleagues come up to me and say that the way I've been treated is wrong and it's not very Christian like and all of that stuff, which, yes, they should be saying publicly, but they say it privately.

But they would say, let's find opportunities to work together to show people that not everyone here is like this.

And it's resulted in me being able to introduce more bipartisan bills in my first year than any other freshman in this Congress.

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Honestly, there are a lot of Republicans in the empathy closet.

They don't want the fight because it feels icky.

Some have said to me to have these fights.

There are some people who are helpful behind the scenes.

There are some people who have, you know, a record where they have voted against the