Mallory McMorrow, while still a state senator, has become a national brand after a viral video rebuking GOP claims.

The race for Michigan’s open Senate seat has its first high-profile candidate. Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat who flipped a state Senate seat in 2018 and gained national attention in 2022 with a viral floor speech,

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow hopes to go from the State Senate to the U.S. Senate. On Wednesday (April 2), she announced that she was running for the open U.S. Senate seat. “This was always on my mind. But I don’t think that many people anticipated Senator Peters’ announcement when it happened,” McMorrow said.