Republican Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer appeared to attend LGBTQ dating app Grindr’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner Weekend party Friday, despite having voted against codifying gay marriage.
Grindr, which describes itself as “the world’s largest network for gay, bi, trans, and queer adults,” hosted the swanky party the night preceding the annual dinner at a multi-million-dollar mansion in Washington, POLITICO reported. A Friday photo, which appears on Getty Images’s website, shows Fischer standing next to Joe Hack, the LGBTQ app’s head of global government affairs who worked for the GOP senator for eight years, according to LegiStorm.
Business Insider Senior Politics Reporter Bryan Metzger reported through a series of X posts late Friday that Fischer and Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin were the only politicians he saw in attendance at the party, which POLITICO described as “glitzy.” The party took place in Georgetown, a longtime wealthy and prestigious Washington neighborhood.
Ex-CNN host Don Lemon was also spotted entering the party, Washingtonian reported.
Fischer, who has served in the Senate since 2013, won reelection to her third term in 2024 by a margin much narrower than expected. She defeated Independent candidate Dan Osborn by only seven percentage points in a race to which Democrats did not nominate a candidate. On the same ballot, President Donald Trump carried Nebraska by 20 points.
Fischer’s office did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.