Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.) has a theory for why Republicans are so focused on what bathroom she will use in the upcoming Congress: “it is an attempt to distract from what they are actually doing.

Del., the first openly transgender person elected to serve in Congress, on Sunday called House Republicans’ moves to ban her from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol “mean-spirited” and an “attempt to misdirect” from other policy priorities.

Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person to be elected to Congress, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that as Republicans have sought to put forward a bathroom ban in the Capitol,

In her first interview after Mace’s weeklong, social media–fueled campaign —which included nearly 300 posts on X —to ban her from the women’s bathroom in the House of Representatives offices, McBride showed how a member of Congress who is actually interested in governing, not grabbing headlines, acts.

Sarah McBride isn't falling for House Republicans' con. The first openly transgender woman ever elected to Congress has yet to be seated, but GOP leadership has already moved to make her time on the Hill as uncomfortable as possible.