Sarah McBride went everywhere in Delaware and heard the same warning at all 57 stops

Delaware has 10 cities, 44 towns and three villages. To launch her campaign for a second term in Congress, U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride, the Democrat who represents them all, visited all 57 of those incorporated communities in 57 hours.The itinerary was part endurance test, part campaign advertisement and part argument about what political representation is supposed to look like at a moment when American politics is increasingly conducted from a distance.McBride began the June tour in Ardentown and ended it with a campaign rally in Rehoboth Beach.Her campaign released a video Tuesday documenting the trip. It presents McBride as an unusually hardworking freshman lawmaker who has largely resisted allowing Republican attacks on her identity to define her time in office.“Delaware has 10 cities, 44 towns and three villages,” McBride says at the beginning of the video. “Fifty-seven places in 57 hours. It’s a good thing I like coffee.”Related: Greenlandic families ‘frightened’ amid rising tensions over Trump takeover plan, Sarah McBride warnsMcBride is the first out transgender person elected to Congress, a distinction that made her 2024 campaign national news. Her reelection effort is making a deliberate case that voters should judge her less as a historical figure than as Delaware’s lone member of the House who delivered tangible results.“We might not agree on everything, but Delaware is my heart, and my constituents are my North Star, regardless of who they voted for in the last election and regardless of who they will vote for in the next election,” McBride told The Advocate in an interview on Tuesday. “I am here in Congress for everyone, and this campaign is for all of us.”McBride formally filed for reelection in June and is running for a second two-year term representing Delaware’s statewide congressional district. As of Tuesday, the state’s candidate list showed no Democratic primary challenger.The campaign video is upbeat and packed with test