Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) believes that Democrats need to act more bisexual.During an appearance at Crooked Medias inaugural convention, Crooked Con, the out trans congresswoman spoke to a comment she made over the summer that voters feel Democrats have sort of been a**holes to them. Related A Person With Parents: How Sarah McBride and her family stay strong in the face of transphobia She explained that the party tends to be quite judgmental and that it needs to be more welcoming to folks with diverse viewpoints. A big tent is bisexual, McBride said, as the crowd laughed and applauded. It goes to the left and the right, and that starts with us being kind to one another, being respectful to one another, and being welcoming to one another.McBride said voters essentially asked two critical questions when considering a party or a candidate: Do they like me, and what do they think? If you cant answer that first question to a voters satisfaction, they never get to that second question, she said. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Voters across the country, she said, clearly feel that our party as a coalition have looked down upon them, dont like them You cant build the diverse, working class coalition necessary to win, the diverse working class coalition that we are fighting for when we do win, if people dont feel like you like them and by extension care for them and respect them.She then emphasized a point she often makes, focused on trying to meet voters where they are and help guide them toward more progressive views, rather than judging them for not being there yet. It also means not being a**holes to our own base, she continued. It means not employing identity politics and purity politics from the center toward the left We have to internalize that to build a big tent, we have to be the most welcoming coalition to everyone from our left to the center, because at the end of the day, a big tent it goes both ways. A big tent is bisexual.McBrides point mirrors what she has said about how she feels Democrats should engage the public on trans rights. During an appearance on Ezra Kleins podcast in June, McBride said she thinks the trans rights movement may have gone to Trans 201 or Trans 301 when people were still at a very much Trans 101 stage. Being expected to suddenly introduce yourself withpronounsand proactively support blurring the gender binary was simply too much too fast for a lot of people, she explained.We became absolutist not just on trans rights but across the progressive movement and we forgot that in a democracy we have to grapple with where the public authentically is and actually engage with it, she said. Politicians, she continued, have a duty of walking people to a place, rather than forcing them to catapult there.We should be ahead of public opinion, but we have to be within arms reach. If we get too far out ahead, we lose our grip on public opinion, and we can no longer bring it with us. And I think a lot of the conversations around sports and also some of the cultural changes that we saw in expected workplace behavior, etc., was the byproduct of maybe just getting too far out ahead and not actually engaging in the art of social change-making.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.