Candidate · November 3, 2026
Sarah McBride
On the ballot for U.S. House · Delaware's At-Large District
- raised through Oct 14, 2026
- $5.6M
- cash on hand
- $2.3M
- issues with public statements
- 37
§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | U.S. House · Delaware's At-Large District1 |
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| Party on the ballot | Democratic1 |
| Status | Incumbent — Currently represents Delaware's at-large district in the U.S. House.2 |
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§2Who they are
Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Sarah McBride, a Wilmington native, is a graduate of Cab Calloway School of the Arts and American University.3 She worked for Governor Jack Markell and Attorney General Beau Biden, served in the Obama-Biden White House, and was national spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign.3 She represented Delaware's 1st State Senate District from 2020 to 2025, where she passed the Healthy Delaware Families Act creating the state's paid family and medical leave program.3 She was elected in 2024 as Delaware's sole member of the U.S. House and serves on the House Foreign Affairs and Science, Space, and Technology committees.3,
Why they say they're running
Her campaign website says she supports an agenda for workers and families, including expanding health care access and lowering costs, and that she wants to keep working to lower costs and put Delawareans' voices at the center in Washington.5,
Service in Congress since 2023
- 2025–nowU.S. Representative, DE-AL2
Websites and accounts
- Campaign websitesarahmcbride.com1
- Official websitemcbride.house.gov2
- Facebookfacebook.com/CongresswomanSarahMcBride7
- Instagraminstagram.com/congresswomansarahmcbride7
- Facebookfacebook.com/SarahEMcBrideDE5
- X (Twitter)twitter.com/SarahEMcBride5
- Instagraminstagram.com/sarahemcbride5
- TikToktiktok.com/@sarahemcbride5
§3What they've said on the issues
Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.
Economy, Jobs and Trade
Her campaign website says she opposes the administration's across-the-board tariffs, which it says raise prices on groceries and household goods.8
- Lower or remove most tariffs
- Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
- Broad tariffs on most imports
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the Prevent Tariff Abuse Act, which would require congressional approval before a president imposes tariffs under a national emergency.8
Her campaign website says she was an original cosponsor of the PRO Act.4
- Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
- Keep current rules
- Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized
Her campaign website calls for raising the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour and tying it to inflation.4
- Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
- Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
- Raise to $15 or more
Her campaign website says she will use her vote to push back on the administration's actions against public sector unions.4
Taxes and Budget
Her campaign website says she backs the Billionaires Income Tax Act, which would require billionaires to pay taxes on the growth of their publicly traded assets.8
- No tax on wealth or on gains from assets that haven't been sold
- A minimum tax on the very wealthy that counts unsold gains as income
- A yearly tax on net worth above a high threshold (such as $50 million)
Her campaign website says she supports tax relief for working- and middle-class families rather than billionaires, and that she opposed the 2025 budget law in part because of its tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.8
Housing
Her campaign website says she wants to increase the supply of housing and backed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which it says became law, to help communities build more homes.8
Family and Social Policy
Her campaign website says she cosponsored legislation to reverse the SNAP cuts in the 2025 budget law.8
- Undo the 2025 changes or expand benefits and eligibility
- Keep the program as changed in 2025
- Tighten eligibility and work rules further
Her campaign website says she is building support for the FAMILY Act to create a permanent national paid family and medical leave program.9,
- Create a national paid leave program for all workers
- Expand tax credits for employers that offer paid leave, without a national requirement
- Keep current federal law, leaving paid leave to employers and states
Her campaign website says she backs bills to provide universal, affordable child care that would cap costs so many families pay no more than $10 a day.9
- Make child care free, or cap what families pay at a set share of income (such as 7%), paid for with new public funding
- Expand help for lower- and middle-income families through grants and tax credits
- Keep current child care funding and tax credits
- Lower costs mainly by easing rules on providers, not with new federal spending
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the American Family Act to permanently enlarge the Child Tax Credit, make it fully available to low-income families and pay it monthly.9
- Make it larger and give the full amount to families with little or no earnings
- Make it larger, while still requiring parents to have earnings to get the full credit
- Keep the credit as set in 2025
Health Care
Her campaign website says health care is a human right, that she supports moving toward universal coverage, and that she supports Medicare for all who want it and lowering the Medicare eligibility age.10,
- One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
- Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
- Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
- Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act to reverse the Medicaid and health care cuts in the 2025 budget law.10,
- Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
- Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
- Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding
Her campaign website says the same bill would permanently extend the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits that were allowed to expire.10,
- Don't bring back the larger credits
- Instead of the larger credits, give the aid to people directly, such as deposits into health savings accounts
- Bring them back for a limited time, such as through 2028, with or without changes such as income limits or minimum premiums
- Bring back the larger credits permanently
Social Security and Medicare
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act to add those benefits to Medicare.11
- Keep current coverage, under which some private Medicare Advantage plans offer these benefits
- Add some of these benefits, such as hearing aids, to traditional Medicare
- Add dental, vision and hearing coverage to traditional Medicare
Her campaign website says she supported the CONNECT for Health Act to permanently expand telehealth.11
- Add more services by law, such as permanent telehealth from home and testing and treatment by pharmacists
- Leave new coverage mainly to Medicare's own reviews of the medical evidence
- Add services only when savings elsewhere in Medicare cover their cost
Abortion and Reproductive Health
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the Women's Health Protection Act to write the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law.12
- Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
- Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
- Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
- Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
- Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy
Her campaign website says the Women's Health Protection Act would establish a nationwide legal right to provide and receive abortion care, and that she supports protecting travel across state lines for abortion care.12
- A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
- Leave abortion law to each state
- A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the Right to IVF Act to protect access to fertility treatment and require insurance coverage for it.12
Guns
Her campaign website says she backs the Bipartisan Background Checks Act to expand background checks to nearly all gun sales.13
- Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
- Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
- Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the Assault Weapons Ban Act and helped ban assault weapons in Delaware.13
- Ban the sale of these rifles
- Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
- No bans or added limits on these rifles
Immigration
Her campaign website says she supports a pathway to legal status for long-standing community members and cosponsored the Dream and Promise Act to give Dreamers and people with TPS or DED a path to permanent residence.14
Her campaign website opposes the administration's mass deportation agenda and says she cosponsored the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act to bar immigration enforcement at schools, hospitals, places of worship and courthouses.14
Her campaign website says she helped introduce the PROTECT Immigration Act to end the 287(g) program, under which state and local police partner with ICE.14
Energy and Climate
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the Energy Bills Relief Act, which would restore clean energy tax credits, expand energy assistance and speed permitting for energy projects.15
- End the remaining clean energy credits
- Keep the credits as the 2025 law left them
- Restore the credits the 2025 law ended or cut back
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the Defend Our Coast Act to prohibit oil and gas leasing in the mid-Atlantic.15
- Stop or sharply limit new leases
- Continue leasing, but keep some coastlines and wildlife areas off-limits
- Lease more federal land and offshore areas for drilling
Agriculture and Rural Life
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the Farm and Family Relief Act to reverse cuts to agriculture in the 2025 budget law and provide emergency relief for farmers.16
- Expand price supports, crop insurance or emergency aid
- Keep the programs at current levels
- Cut payments, such as with tighter limits for the largest farms
- Phase out price-support payments and rely on crop insurance
Crime, Policing and Prisons
Her campaign website says she will push to legalize marijuana and expunge convictions.17
- Keep recreational use against the law
- Reduce penalties for having small amounts, without legal sales
- Let each state decide, with no federal penalties where a state allows it
- Make it legal for adults to buy and use
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which it says would eliminate qualified immunity for law enforcement.17
- End qualified immunity for police officers
- Keep qualified immunity as courts apply it now
- Write qualified immunity into federal law
Education
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the Department of Education Protection Act to keep federal funds from being used to dismantle the department.18
- Close the department and move or end its programs
- Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
- Keep the department and its programs, or expand it
Technology, Privacy and AI
Her campaign website says AI must not go unregulated, calls for laws protecting the economy, privacy, health, democracy and national security, and says she introduced the READ AI Models Act to create a standard information label for AI models.19
- Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
- Set rules for specific risks and uses, such as deepfakes, hiring decisions and safety disclosures
- Rely mainly on existing laws, without new rules written for AI
Veterans
Her campaign website says she backs the Major Richard Star Act so combat-injured veterans can receive full retirement pay and disability compensation, and cosponsored the Love Lives On Act so surviving spouses keep survivor benefits if they remarry.20
- Let all military retirees with service-connected disabilities collect both payments in full
- Expand benefits for some groups, such as combat-injured retirees with under 20 years of service and surviving spouses who remarry
- Keep current rules, which already pay both in full to some retirees, such as those with 20 or more years of service and a disability rating of at least 50%
Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.21
- Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
- Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
- Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn
Elections and Government Reform
Her campaign website says she strongly opposes the SAVE America Act, which it says would create unnecessary barriers to voter registration for millions of eligible Americans.21
Her campaign website says she cosponsored the DISCLOSE Act and supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.21
- Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
- Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
- Keep current rules
- Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties
Her campaign website says that in the state Senate she helped pass vote-by-mail, early voting and same-day registration protections.21
§4Popular bills that never got a vote
Why this matters: Many bills with wide support from both parties never reach a vote, so no member of Congress is ever on record for or against them. Signing on as a sponsor or cosponsor is the only public record of support.
While Sarah McBride served, these bills had broad support from both parties but never reached a floor vote. No officeholder ever had to vote on them. Sarah McBride sponsored or cosponsored 25 of the 26. How bills die without a vote.
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- Lets combat-disabled veterans get full military retirement pay plus disability pay (H.R. 2102, 119th Congress · 340 cosponsors)22Cosponsored
- Sets electronic prior-approval and reporting rules for Medicare Advantage plans (H.R. 3514, 119th Congress · 308 cosponsors)23Cosponsored
- Ends disability benefit and Medicare waiting periods for metastatic breast cancer (H.R. 2048, 119th Congress · 271 cosponsors)24Cosponsored
- Extends the parks maintenance fund and adds higher park fees for foreign visitors (H.R. 9250, 119th Congress · 263 cosponsors)25Cosponsored
- Expands Medicare telehealth coverage by removing location limits and other restrictions (H.R. 4206, 119th Congress · 248 cosponsors)26Cosponsored
- Bans slaughtering horses and other equines for human food (H.R. 1661, 119th Congress · 238 cosponsors)27Cosponsored
- Targets crimes against postal workers; authorizes money for more secure mailboxes and keys (H.R. 1065, 119th Congress · 231 cosponsors)28Cosponsored
- Adds Medicare coverage of blood tests to screen for early Alzheimer's disease (H.R. 6130, 119th Congress · 231 cosponsors)29Cosponsored
- Requires health plans to cover birth defect care for the eyes, ears, teeth, mouth or jaw (H.R. 3277, 119th Congress · 214 cosponsors)30Cosponsored
- Keeps paying military members and support staff during a shutdown in fiscal 2026 (H.R. 5401, 119th Congress · 210 cosponsors)31Cosponsored
- Raises Medicare physician fee schedule payments by 6.62% for April through December 2025 (H.R. 879, 119th Congress · 198 cosponsors)32Cosponsored
- Lets surviving military and veteran spouses keep benefits after remarrying (H.R. 1004, 119th Congress · 183 cosponsors)33Cosponsored
- Raises the tax credit for maintaining short line railroad track (H.R. 516, 119th Congress · 183 cosponsors)34Cosponsored
- Expands U.S.-Israel military cooperation on counter-drone and emerging technology (H.R. 1229, 119th Congress · 178 cosponsors)35Cosponsored
- Expands Medicare coverage to all services chiropractors are licensed to provide (H.R. 539, 119th Congress · 174 cosponsors)36Cosponsored
- Requires employer health plans to offer exceptions to step therapy drug rules (H.R. 5509, 119th Congress · 169 cosponsors)37Cosponsored
- Expands and revises the low-income housing tax credit for affordable rentals (H.R. 2725, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)38Cosponsored
- Counts recovery from organ donation surgery as a serious health condition for family leave (H.R. 4582, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)39Cosponsored
- Bars insurers from discriminating against living organ donors (H.R. 4583, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)40Cosponsored
- Requires nursing homes and similar facilities to let essential caregivers see residents (H.R. 6766, 119th Congress · 160 cosponsors)41Cosponsored
- Doubles the amount of profit from selling a primary home that is exempt from tax (H.R. 1340, 119th Congress · 159 cosponsors)42Cosponsored
- Requires VA clinicians to certify a veteran's death within 48 hours (H.R. 4398, 119th Congress · 158 cosponsors)43Cosponsored
- No-down-payment, federally insured mortgages for first responders and teachers (H.R. 2094, 119th Congress · 154 cosponsors)44Cosponsored
- Funds research on firefighter protective gear made without PFAS chemicals (H.R. 3184, 119th Congress · 150 cosponsors)45Cosponsored
- Bans betting on animal fights and allows private lawsuits over animal fighting (H.R. 3946, 119th Congress · 150 cosponsors)46Cosponsored
- Authorizes CIA payments to former Air America employees and survivors for 1950-1976 work (H.R. 2192, 119th Congress · 178 cosponsors)47Did not cosponsor
§5Money
Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.
Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.48
| Raised | $5,556,755 |
|---|---|
| Spent | $3,437,843 |
| Cash on hand | $2,326,039 |
Where the money came from
§6Financial disclosures
Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.
- Annual financial disclosure report49filed May 14, 2026
- New filer financial disclosure report50filed May 14, 2025
- Candidate financial disclosure report51filed May 14, 2024