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Sarah Mcbride

Sarah Mcbride

Democratic · DE U.S. RepresentativeCandidate 2026

2 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2025

Roles held

  1. Representative 2025 – present DE Democratic
  2. Candidate 2026 – present Democratic

Years as candidate

  1. 2026
  • background Born August 9, 1990; LGBTQ rights activist and author
  • role National press secretary of Human Rights Campaign (2016–2021)
  • role Delaware Senate (1st district, 2021–2025); first openly transgender state senator in US (2020)
  • role U.S. representative for Delaware since 2025; first openly transgender member of Congress
  • achievement Speaker at 2016 Democratic National Convention; first openly transgender person to address major party convention
  • achievement Published memoir (2018) with foreword by then-VP Biden; credited with shaping his views on transgender issues

Issue positions (3)

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

Campaign finance

2026 cycle

Incumbent for U.S. House DE-00 · 2026 General Election

  • $4,659,086 raised
  • $2,208,285 spent
  • $2,657,928 cash on hand
$4.66M
$4.43M
$4.02M
Itemized (≥ $200)$2.80M
Unitemized (< $200)$1.22M
Other committees (PACs)$413.40K
Transfers from other committees$212.23K
Offsets to expenditures$13.99K
Other receipts$1.62K
$2.21M
Operating expenditures$1.94M
Contribution refunds$24.25K
Other disbursements$241.92K
Cash on hand$2.66M
Debts owed by committee$0.00

Through June 30, 2026 · FEC

Data from FEC (through Jun 30, 2026)

Finance updated: not yet pulled

Over time

Data from FEC per-cycle campaign finance

Money raised, spent, and cash on hand across every election cycle on record — toggle a series in the legend.

Sarah Mcbride campaign finance by election cycle
Cycle RaisedSpentCash on hand
2024$4,091,643$3,884,516$207,127
2026$4,659,086$2,208,285$2,657,928

Contributions received

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $34,085 ·

Top contributors (FEC)

Data from FEC, itemized campaign receipts

Top contributors — 2024 cycle

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor's reported employer (FEC Schedule A).

  • MICROSOFT CORPORATION $28,000
  • GOOGLE LLC $25,863
  • Employer not reported $17,300
  • YOUNG CONAWAY STARGATT & TAYLOR LLP $16,225
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE $15,745
  • HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN $13,773
  • STATE OF DELAWARE $13,095
  • CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY $12,900
  • YOUNG, CONAWAY, STARGATT & TAYLOR LLP $9,900
  • PAUL WEISS RIFKIND WHARTON & GARRISON $9,850

Outside spending on this race

Data from FEC, Schedule E independent expenditures

Independent expenditures are money outside groups (PACs / super-PACs) spend to support or oppose a candidate without coordinating with their campaign. What's this? →

  • 2026 cycle $20 supporting · $0 opposing · 2 outside groups
  • 2024 cycle $400,648 supporting · $0 opposing · 4 outside groups

See the outside-money leaderboard →

Documented relationships

Documented facts about Mcbride, aggregated from public records. A documented relationship is not evidence of wrongdoing — it is context, not a conclusion.

No documented relationships of this kind on record — absence is not a finding.

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