Pete Buttigieg praises Sarah McBride’s “masterful” response to Nancy Mace

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Pete Buttigieg praises Sarah McBride's "masterful" response to Nancy Mace

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Story by Greg Owen (16 Dec 2024)

Buttigieg is a great admirer of incoming Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), he said, and the way she handled the overt transphobia from soon-to-be Republican congressional colleagues, including Reps. Nancy Mace (R- SC) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), as well as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

"There's a lot to be learned from Sarah McBride's masterful handling of this on her way into Congress," Buttigieg offered. "Because what she said was: What the speaker's doing is wrong. But I didn't come here to fight over that. I came here to make life easier for people in Delaware who elected me."

"It immediately demonstrated," he said, that Republicans "should be dealing with issues of utmost world-historical importance" but are instead consumed with regulating where "colleagues get to go to the bathroom."

Buttigieg acknowledged McBride "took some heat" from activists for not taking a stand on the issue, but called it "instructive," "not so much because of the position she struck, but because of the importance of reminding everybody what it means when people in power, or people seeking power, try to get there by stepping on the faces of some disfavored group. This is not some modern phenomenon of the 2020s, but one of the oldest and ugliest tricks in the book."