Biden congratulates McBride...

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Biden congratulates McBride: 'Beau's looking down from heaven'

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Story by Brooke Migdon (14 Sep 2024)

President Biden on Wednesday called Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride (D) to congratulate her on her primary win for the state's only House seat, a victory that all but guarantees McBride will be the first openly transgender person elected to Congress in November.

McBride, 33, first met President Biden, whom she called her "political idol" in her 2018 memoir, as a starstruck 11-year-old at a restaurant in Delaware. "Remember me when you are president," a then-Sen. Biden (D-Del.) scribbled to McBride on a paper torn from his schedule book.

McBride later grew close with the Bidens as a teenager while working on Beau Biden's first bid for state attorney general in 2006 and his 2010 reelection campaign. When she came out publicly as transgender in 2012, as a student at American University in Washington, Beau Biden was among the first to call.

"I'm here with Hallie and we just want you to know that we love you, we stand with you, and you are still as much a part of the Biden family as ever. This doesn't change anything," he said, McBride recalled in her memoir, "Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality." President Biden wrote the book's forward, describing McBride as "honest and heartfelt" and a natural leader.