Sarah McBride

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.

OK.

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

For instance, the most egregious anti-trans bill that has ever come before Congress, which was that Marjorie Taylor Greene bill that would have literally imprisoned parents and doctors for following medical best practices and inserted the government into those deeply personal health care decisions.

They're on the record publicly on it.

I'll take her disagreements with Trump and certainly welcome those disagreements in the context of that issue.

But I think we should be under no illusions that Marjorie Taylor Greene

on 95% of things is still the same Marjorie Taylor Greene.

And that what we've seen over the last year, like I think her departure from Congress was not some master plan to set herself up for office.

I think it genuinely