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Mallory Ann McMorrow is an American politician who has served in the Michigan Senate since January 2019. She became senate majority whip on January 1, 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represents the 8th district; before that, from 2019 to 2023, she represented the 13th district. Prior to running for the Michigan Senate, McMorrow worked in industrial design. She is currently a candidate for the United States Senate in Michigan for the 2026 election.

Early life and education
McMorrow was born in the Whitehouse section of Readington Township, New Jersey, and graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School. She was raised Roman Catholic and her family was active in their local parish. However, her parents divorced, and their priest said her mother was "not living up to the Church's expectations". McMorrow said that on Sundays, she and her mother instead volunteered at local soup kitchens outside of the diocese. McMorrow received a Bachelor of Arts in industrial design from the University of Notre Dame in 2008. During her junior year at Notre Dame, she won a public design contest for the 2018 version of the Mazda3. She also finished second in a contest to design the logo for the Indiana Toll Road. After graduation, McMorrow worked for design firms in New York and Los Angeles, as well as for Mattel and Gawker, before moving to Michigan. == Political career ==
Political career
McMorrow participated in the 2017 Women's March in Detroit and began writing postcards to Betsy DeVos, the U.S. secretary of education, challenging positions of the Trump administration. She applied to Emerge America's Michigan chapter, which provides training to political candidates. McMorrow defeated Knollenberg, receiving 52 percent of the vote, with 73,138 votes to Knollenberg's 67,798. Michigan Senate Democrats chose McMorrow to serve as the assistant minority floor leader. McMorrow endorsed Elizabeth Warren for President in 2019 and volunteered for Warren's 2020 presidential campaign in Michigan. In January 2020, McMorrow, lobbyist Melissa Osborn and Michigan Advance reporter Allison Donahue accused Republican state Senator Peter Lucido of sexual harassment. McMorrow stated that Lucido touched her lower back and upper buttocks in November 2018, shortly after she was elected to the state senate, and made comments during a training session that suggested she won her election because of her appearance. In April 2022, Republican State Senator Lana Theis claimed in a campaign fundraising email that McMorrow wanted to "groom and sexualize kindergartners" and teach that "8-year-olds are responsible for slavery" On April 19, 2022, McMorrow took to the senate floor to defend herself against Theis's accusations, stating: "I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom who knows that the very notion that learning about slavery or redlining or systemic racism somehow means that children are being taught to feel bad or hate themselves because they are white is absolute nonsense." In the primary election held August 2, 2022, McMorrow defeated Bullock for the Democratic Party's nomination for the 8th District. McMorrow defeated Republican Brandon Ronald Simpson in the November general election. On November 17, 2022, McMorrow announced that she would serve as Senate Majority Whip in 102nd Senate session. On August 19, 2024, McMorrow delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention and brought out a giant copy of the roughly 900-page Project 2025. It became one of the Democratic Party's most consistent tools against the campaign of Donald Trump and she said, "They went ahead and wrote down all the extreme things that Trump wants to do in the next four years". She gave her support to Kamala Harris for president. McMorrow's debut book, ''Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than We Found It'', was published by Hachette Book Group on March 25, 2025. While expressing respect for Democratic Party leaders, McMorrow privately wrote to Joe Biden in July 2024 urging him to step down from the ticket and expressed the need for new leadership in the party in March 2025. In April 2025, McMorrow announced that she would run in the Democratic primary to replace United States Senator Gary Peters, who had announced he would not stand for re-election in 2026. McMorrow has been advised by the Democratic operative Lis Smith since 2022. == Political positions ==
Political positions
McMorrow has called herself a pragmatist. She has said, "I don't know that I would be in office in my first district if I was at the far left end of the party, and I don't think that's what people are looking for right now." In April 2026, CNN reported that McMorrow had previously expressed progressive views, including support for Black Lives Matter and criticism of Donald Trump and his supporters, in since-deleted social media posts. Abortion McMorrow supports abortion rights. In July 2022, a month after the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, McMorrow spoke about an emergency medical procedure, dilation and curettage (D&C), which she had undergone that January to remove a malfunctioning IUD. She expressed concern for restrictions of access to D&C and other abortion procedures in the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision, as without it she could have had permanent damage to her reproductive system, making her unable to get pregnant again, or it could have gotten infected and resulted in her death. Data centers McMorrow has supported the growth of data centers while also advocating that data centers pay a fair share of taxes, voting as a State Senator to exempt data center equipment from sales and use taxes to incentivize their growth in Michigan. Economic policy As chairwoman of the Senate Economic and Community Development Committee, McMorrow pushed for more community investments in regional transit and childcare to supplement the state's traditional reliance on incentives for big companies for economic development. In April 2025, McMorrow reached out to pro-Israel Democratic groups to emphasize her support for Israel during her candidacy for the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan and condemned the harassment and antisemitism of pro-Palestinian protests at the University of Michigan directed towards its regents. According to Jewish Insider, by April 2025, McMorrow had returned foreign policy papers to at least one pro-Israel Democratic group, emphasizing her commitment to Israel's security. Washington Examiner reported McMorrow said that she has a respectful relationship with AIPAC, reporting her husband, who is Jewish, interned for AIPAC. McMorrow has asked AIPAC to not intervene in the 2026 U.S. Senate Democratic primary in Michigan on behalf of their preferred candidate Haley Stevens and has said that she has been in contact with AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups. She said the groups have been "receptive" to her positions on Israel, adding that "they understand the shifting dynamics not only in Michigan but around the country and the world, people are very attuned to the deep influence PACs have that outweighs the influence of people and voters." In September 2025, Drop Site News reported on a pro-Israel donor call, in which a supporter of McMorrow said she had privately produced an "outstanding" AIPAC position paper. McMorrow has denied directly seeking support or endorsement from AIPAC. When initially asked about the role of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the Senate election, she responded "two things can be true simultaneously... that Hamas started a violent war, and that war needs to end." McMorrow expressed support for a two-state solution, for the return of hostages, and for providing humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, saying that peace has been a hallmark of Democratic policy for decades. McMorrow's positions on weapons and support to Israel have adjusted over the course of her Senate campaign and as humanitarian conditions have rapidly deteriorated for Palestinians. In April 2025, she declined to say whether she would vote for further security aid for Israel without conditions, wanting to see the legislation first. In July 2025, McMorrow said the U.S. must stop providing Benjamin Netanyahu offensive weapons as leverage until the resumption of humanitarian aid, demanded Hamas release all of the hostages and disarm, and said the parties must negotiate a permanent ceasefire that they adhere to. Asked in October 2025 whether the war legally met the definition of a genocide, McMorrow responded affirmatively, with her campaign citing a September 2025 United Nations Commission of Inquiry report as the convincing factor. Outreach to voters McMorrow has proposed a voter outreach strategy of "being unafraid of going everywhere and meeting people where they are", citing unwillingness to engage with figures such as Joe Rogan resulting in a perception that Democrats are elitist and academic. == Personal life ==
Personal life
In her 2025 autobiography, McMorrow wrote that she "relocated permanently" from California to Michigan in 2014. In April 2026, CNN reported on deleted social media posts by McMorrow in which she described herself as a California resident as late as July 2016. They have a daughter born in January 2021 and they live in Royal Oak, Michigan. Wert is Jewish and McMorrow is Catholic. == Electoral history ==
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